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Streets of Prague

my photography, please don’t delete the caption or alter credits

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zendaya x dark & light academia

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What is this place between hopeless romantic and strong independent individual

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harry styles x dark & light academia

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𝙼𝚒𝚔𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚕 𝙱𝚞𝚕𝚐𝚊𝚔𝚘𝚟, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚊 (𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟾-𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟶)

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F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)

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magdalen college, oxford

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wearing the oversized jacket, always having a book with yourself, walking a lot, reading in the empty cafe while drinking the black coffee, writing love letters and never sending them, and spending evening alone listening to vinils

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Louis Hubbard Grimshaw (1870-1943)

Whitehall

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someone tell people it’s unrealistic to yearn for someone who will write you endless poetry, send love letters, go on life changing adventures with you, encourage random museum visits and listen to your tangents about art and history.

i’m people.

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Michael Angelo's painting on top of the Palace of Versailles (ph. Adrianna Geo).

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latin phrases worth knowing:

(in case you wanted to know because i fucking love this language) 

ad astra per aspera - to the stars through difficulties 

alis volat propriis - he flies by his own wings 

amantium irae amoris integratio est - the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love 

ars longa, vita brevis - art is long, life is short 

aut insanity homo, aut versus facit - the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses 

dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope 

ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem - with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty 

exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis melior - I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad

experiential docet - experience teaches 

helluo librorum - a glutton for books (bookworm) 

in libras libertas - in books, freedom 

littera scripta manet - the written letter lasts 

mens regnum bona possidet - an honest heart is a kingdom in itself 

mirabile dictu - wonderful to say 

nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part 

omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now 

poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made 

qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it 

saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be 

sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still 

si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war 

struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears 

sub rosa - under the rose 

trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise

urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble 

ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains

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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

The Secret History

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how i wish to love someone with my whole being

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‘’So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.’’

— letters written c. September 1847

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Recoloring old black and white lgbt photos (1/?)

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apollo & zephyrus | the victoria and albert museum, london