“I gathered wild lilies and honeysuckle and bleeding heart,”— Patricia A. McKillip, from “Winter Rose,” originally published c. 1997
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Helen Stratton (1867-1961). Illustrations for Songs for Little People by Norman Rowland Gale. 1896. [x]
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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin
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"I will always mourn–hear me?–for you, alone, in Paradise."
- Odysseas Elytis, from ‘The Monogram’ (via soracities)
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"We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."
- Ernest Hemingway (via unembellishedthought)
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Villas at Bordighera, 1884, Claude Monet
“Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.”— Serge Lutens
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“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.”— Donna Leon, American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, who has lived in Venice for over 25 years
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“I believe in the soul. I can’t tell you what it is, but I can feel it, it’s a sort of a presence and sometimes it vibrates very strongly. Years ago someone told me that Flaubert said the objects we are drawn to are not haphazard, they are material expressions of something intangible but vital that our soul wishes to bring to our attention, they are clues, in other words, and we should decipher them as such.”— Claire-Louise Bennet, from “The Mind in Solitude: An Interview with Claire-Louise Bennett” by Philip Maughan, The Paris Review (18 July 2016)
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