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remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.

Villa Farnese, Italy

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.

“burn it all.”

medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life.

but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

-John Keating; Dead Poets Society

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

-Oscar Wilde

i have no idea how artists spend months, YEARS on paintings. if my drawing doesn't look exactly as i imagine it in the first 30 minutes i'm abandoning it forever

I overthink.

I over love.

I over feel.

I'm the sea or I'm nothing.

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

oh you’re a writer? how’s doing everything you can to avoid writing going?

Kate Chopin, from “The Awakening” featured in The Awakening & Selected Stories

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

Vincent van Gogh

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont | Paris, August 2019

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

hate it here (realm of consciousness) going back to sleep

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

A narrow oak staircase shielded by a door, heavy brace beams a nice old brick floor, and a mixture of painted brick and boarding on the walls are all typical ingredients of an old cottage hallway.

English Country Style, 1986

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."

-Francis Scott Fitzgerald

There is another world

But it is made inside this one

Birds born in cages

Believe freedom is a crime

Saint Petersburg, Russia. credit goes to @bloodandfun 

tired eyes and ink stained hands trail across the pages, as the rain-swept buildings nestle underneath the gloomy skies, and the poems of baudelaire pour from my heart.

ig: rosenaufsuden

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” - Leonardo da Vinci

Peace, you never seemed so tedious As now – no, never quite like this.

~ Sappho

Views of Galleria Borghese, Rome

“Morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable” — the secret history, by donna tartt.

the gallery of great battles; versailles, paris

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

-Friedrich Nietzsche