"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

~   Edward Rochester, Wide Sargasso Sea (via melancholicenthusiasm)
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12th May 2012✧15:3025 notes
ponderful: “[She] increased in beauty.” An Trina Schart Hyman illustration for Snow White (1974) retold by Paul Heins. trina schart hyman, a god among men
21st Apr 2012✧19:0864 notes
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"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."

~   Nikos Kazantzakis (via sculpturedchaos)

(via indigenousdialogues)

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31st Mar 2012✧20:5255 notes

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final."

~   

Rainer Maria Rilke  (via thelittlephilosopher

)

(via becksvartljuset)

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26th Jan 2012✧19:17154 notes

"I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman,
        the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.

The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things
        come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go,
        not one lasts."

~   

Carl Sandburg, “Autumn Movement” (via proustitute)

all things are tinged with nostalgia and regret in autumn

(via dreaminginthedeepsouth)

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5th Nov 2011✧15:26267 notes
so perfect. the sphere reminds me of old woodcuts, symbolizing dominion over the earth. the harpy’s face and form also recalls the peacock of the pacific northwest ballet’s nutcracker film.
7th Oct 2011✧14:572,449 notes
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"Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?"

~   

Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (via talisman)

the best book

(via highfantasy)

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4th Oct 2011✧13:1282 notes
enchantingimagery: Circe, The Enchantress. An Edmund Dulac illustration for a poem by Andrew Dumas.
27th Aug 2011✧15:38828 notes
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theartofanimation: Annie Stegg so beautiful reminds me a bit of my sister.
7th Aug 2011✧08:431,093 notes
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"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."

~   John Keats (via circusfolk)

(via toseeyourstarshine)

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18th Jul 2011✧13:525 notes
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