quietasoxen: annan james craig, the dark mountains, 1904 lord of the rings moment
17th Jan 2013✧14:33377 notes
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pre-raphaelisme: The End Of The Quest by Frank Dicksee cheesy romance, but whatever i can accept that.
24th Dec 2012✧13:03424 notes
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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer."

~   Rainer Maria Rilke (via lucifelle)

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26th Sep 2012✧14:04481 notes

"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."

~   Hermann Hesse (via therealbrooklyn)

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26th May 2012✧13:35748 notes
metalonmetalblog:   Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933) Illustrations to “The Rubaiyat” of Omar Khayyam (Persian poet, 1048–1131) the blind crone’s quest…
18th Mar 2012✧15:0056 notes
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16th Jan 2012✧06:3892 notes
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“But how could you have expected to travel that path in thought alone, how expect to measure the moon by the fish? No, my neighbors, never think that path is a short one; you must have lions’ hearts to go by that way, it is not short and its seas are deep; you will walk it long in wonder, sometimes smiling, sometimes weeping.” Castle Rigg or Castlerigg, also known as Keswick Carles, Cumbria
2nd Oct 2011✧19:1112 notes
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"Being a somewhat dark person myself, I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive."

~   Laurie Anderson, Notes on Melville’s Moby Dick - via Maud Newton (August 26, 2004) & her Tumblr (June 6, 2011)

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27th Jul 2011✧10:27956 notes
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your kingdom

“In a myth or a fairytale, one doesn’t restore the kingdom by passivity, nor can it be done by logic or thought. So how can it be done? Monsters and dangerous tasks seem to be part of it. Courage and terror and failure or what seems like failure, and then hopelessness and the approach of death convincingly. The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it is there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn’t dead.”

-Lynda Barry

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29th May 2011✧18:25
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