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“The mind requires some relaxation, and cannot always support its bent to care and industry.”

— David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

“If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?”

— Voltaire, Candide

Dog

Valentine Cameron Prinsep

“In all things, deceit arrives first, dragging fools behind it in endless vulgarity. Truth is always late, last to arrive, limping along with time.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

The Peacock complaining to Juno (1881) by Gustave Moreau

“Man’s unhappiness, says Descartes, is due to his having first been a child. And indeed the unfortunate choices which most men make can only be explained by the fact that they have taken place on the basis of childhood. The child’s situation is characterized by his finding himself cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish, which has been fashioned without him, and which appears to him as an absolute to which he can only submit. In his eyes, human inventions, words, customs, and values are given facts, as inevitable as the sky and the trees. […] He is allowed to play, to expend his existence freely. In his child’s circle he feels that he can passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself. But if he fulfills this experience in all tranquility, it is precisely because the domain open to his subjectivity seems insignificant and puerile in his own eyes. He feels himself happily irresponsible. The real world is that of adults where he is allowed only to respect and obey. […] Rewards, punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame instill in him the conviction that there exist a good and an evil which like a sun and a moon exist as ends in themselves. In his universe of definite and substantial things, beneath the sovereign eyes of grown-up persons, he thinks that he too has being in a definite and substantial way. […] He can do with impunity whatever he likes. He knows that nothing can ever happen through him; everything is already given; his acts engage nothing, not even himself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

Seeing stan wars over asoiaf never fails to make me laugh. Why are you putting any of them on a pedestal???

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

“The “well-informed” think they know something about matters that the experts are reluctant even to speak of. Information at second hand always gives an impression of tidiness, in contrast with the data at the scientist’s disposal, full of gaps and uncertainties.”

— Stanisław Lem, His Master’s Voice

— Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

“Allow yourself to be known, but not comprehended. No one will discern the limits of your talent, and thus no one will be disappointed.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

I feel so bad for myrcella like imagine you're a 10 year old chess prodigy who only wants to be cute and hang out with her friends but you end up losing like half of your face because your boyfriend's hot sister convinced your newest father figure that you would be a good president (you would)

AND ALSO you and your siblings are doomed to die in childhood because your dumbass loser mother who you haven't seen in like 2 years received a cursed prophecy from a circus magician when she was a child (???) free myrcella man wtf

'The Three Fates' by Alexander Rothaug, 1910

“Just as the bones, flesh, intestines and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes the sight of man endurable, so the agitations and passions of the soul are enveloped in vanity: it is the skin of the soul.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 82

Friedrich Von Amerling - Lost in Her Dreams, (1835)

«Sansa thought of the games she would play as a young child, always insisting that Robb joined in. He could never refuse and so he would be the brave knight to her captured princess, with Arya often playing the villain. The rescue attempt would always end with a sword fight while Sansa cheered Robb on, and when he won he would pick her up and spin her around while she laughed happily, kissing his cheek and declaring him the bravest knight in the seven kingdoms.

Though they were silly games of pretend, still Sansa waited in King’s Landing with the hope that Robb would be her knight just one more time.»

commission for @⧗ nataliaxe ✪

“dany survived a childhood of loneliness and abuse, even at the hands of her brother. nobody ever protected her as a child and she fills that void inside her by protecting others. she becomes mhysa, mother to thousands: the breaker of chains.”

— daenerys iii, a storm of swords.

commission for lovely @mercyalayne ,

Inspired by Christian Birmingham’s artworks

visenya & maegor

The Drowned (1867) by Josef Manés

Mt St Helens eruption 1980

Greenock by John Atkinson Grimshaw

Girl Arranging Her Hair (1918-19) by Abbott Handerson Thayer

Somnambulant (1878) by Maximilián Pirner

Hera (1850-1919) by Eduard Niczky

“The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.”

— Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith

“I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known – no wonder, then, that I return the love.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or