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Detail: Apollo and the Arts, 1897, by Paul Jean Gervais.

In every life there are events that reshape one’s sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.

Annie Proulx, Barkskins (via quotespile)

“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”

Detail: The Fallen Angel, 2007, by Arantzazu Martinez | If you are sensitive to the majestic beauty and delicacy of this painting, don’t go searching for his head. Just enjoy the little things about life.

be handed a letter by your maid, break the wax seal, read it with dawning understanding and then slowly look up into the middle-distance with an ominous smirk. order your carriage to be prepared at once. 

late 19th century perfume bottles

Ever look at historic art and writing and artifacts and just realize we’ve all only ever been human

when the quarantine is over we are bringing back the cult of dionysus