Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.
painting and details of The Roses of Heliogabalus // by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Christ Church. x
“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””
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— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
George Eliot // Edward Young // Malcolm Liepke // Marcel Proust // Kahlil Gibran // Thomas Aquinas // Holly Warburton // Taylor Swift // Arnold Lobel // Ralph Waldo Emerson
van gogh's starry night as a kindle cover
THE SECRET HISTORY- NETFLIX SERIES
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Aida_diop_1 [ A i d a D i o p ]
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starry night
Albertine Bookstore, NYC
"Death is the Mother of Beauty"
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.