Portrait of a Lady

"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."

- Kafka, in a letter to Max Brod (via thegoldeneternity)

May 19
loverofbeauty:

Sofonisba Anguissola, Isabel von Valois, c. 1599
May 14

loverofbeauty:

Sofonisba Anguissola, Isabel von Valois, c. 1599

(Source: cavetocanvas)

May 6

(via ninefoldgoddess)

"She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing."

- The Awakening  (via blondeyed)

(Source: lifeiszebubblez, via themadphrontistery-deactivated2)

May 6
May 5

(via black-leather)

What am I doing to myself? I felt the string Jane spoke of

And watched as the spool in my chest wound

Further and further away

Until the time I saw you riding through the moonlight and I felt

As if you’d grabbed my chest in your bare hands and pulled it into yours,

Stone and cold

I’ve wanted you since I first realized

That your mind was as expansive as the rolling valleys I’d searched inside myself

Every night since I was young

Rarely was the thought of your body intertwining with mine enough

To satisfy the hunger I had for everything inside of you

I wanted the pain as much as the intellect

The passionate love as much as the anger

And the fear as much as the hero I could feel blindly with my fingers but never with my eyes

Being with you for the fleeting moments when I saw your courage

Was like rolling over in the mornings after days of mourning

And feeling as if someone had filled me in the night with all that I’d been missing

Other times you would convince me I knew nothing of you and never would

And inside myself I’d hold a funeral

For the woman I had no chance of being

May 5
Jane

"My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away."

- David Levithan (via hellanne)

May 5

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

- Rumi (via vineetkaur)

May 3
mpdrolet:

Lovers at the movies, c. 1940
Weegee
May 2

mpdrolet:

Lovers at the movies, c. 1940

Weegee

(via workman)

May 1

That the difference between
the sprout and the bean
is a golden ring,
it is a twisted string.
And you can ask the counselor;
you can ask the king;
and they’ll say the same thing;
and it’s a funny thing

(Source: sixtytwoseconds)

likeafieldmouse:

Robert Henri - Rough Seas Near Lobster Point (1903)
May 1

likeafieldmouse:

Robert Henri - Rough Seas Near Lobster Point (1903)

(Source: likeafieldmouse, via backbonejack)

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."

- Charles Bukowski  (via jessiccachastain)

(Source: simply-quotes, via black-leather)

May 1
May 1

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Apr 30

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blackpaint20:

Adrian d’Amboise - Devises royales (1621).
Apr 29

blackpaint20:

Adrian d’Amboise - Devises royales (1621).

(via spittingbloodlaugh)