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Birth & Death of Christ

The Virgin of the Lilies † Pietra by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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The light enters and I remember who I am;

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Watcher", from Selected Poems

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“You laugh like a little girl, and inside you think like a martyr.”

— The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky 

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when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’

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“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.” - Virginia Woolf

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Neo-gothic mausoleum of Robert Karl von Lachmann-Falkenau in Jałowiec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Photos by abandoned_nordic.

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Apollo and Coronis by Adam Elsheimer (1578 - 1610)

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happy new year to the girls who are always an angel never a god always an angel never a god always an angel never a god always an angel never a god always an angel never a god always an angel never a god always an angel never a god always an angel never a

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Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

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Portrait of Maria Dominica Ricci Seated in a Theatre Box Holding Binoculars – Emma Ekwall // Lady Nanne Schrader – Giovanni Boldini // Portrait of Mary Anne Bloxam – Thomas Lawrence // Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in “Love for Love” by William Congreve – Joshua Reynolds // Portrait of Amalia Schmidt – Karl Vogl // Portrait of a Lady – Josef Abel // Portrait of Theresa Hannack – Adolf Pirsch // Portrait of D. Amélia de Beauharnais – Friedrich Dürck // Portrait of Anna Maria van Heekeren – Charles Howard Hodges // A Girl from Sorica – Ivan Grohar // Self Portrait – Marie-Gabrielle Capet // Never Ever – Lord Huron

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Detail — Portrait of Philippe de Croy (1460) by Rogier van der Weyden † Savonarola by Michael Hussar

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“I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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Mary Oliver, from "I will try", Red Bird

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PTOLEMAEA

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Paul Delaroche: The Young Martyr (1855)

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Tintoretto c. 1598-1602

Penitent Magdalene (details)