The Desire To Be Beautiful Is Giving Me Brain Damage

gold angel pins

“Sometimes, even with a film I really love, I cannot tell the story precisely. Sometimes I cannot even tell what happened chronologically. But I’ll have flashes of some things. Sometimes it looks almost like a still. What I know, what I can remember is the emotion I felt. I know I loved a film because I remember feeling good in the film or feeling odd when I came out, either in tears or touched or mad.”

— Agnès Varda, from an interview with Melissa Anderson, 2001 (via filmografie)

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because “romantic” doesn’t mean “sugary”. It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.

Catherine Breillat  (via mermaidveins)

A Visit to the Haunted Chamber (edited),1869 - William Frederick Yeames

um no offense but whom'st’ve going to loveth me

Dreamy guestroom in interior designer Howard Slatkin’s Fifth Avenue apartment [x]

We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Ursula K. Le Guin, from “Nine Lives”, in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (via antigonick)

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Carl Vilhelm Holsøe, (1863-1835)- Reflections

TRAVEL DESK SET

Ivory, Malachite, Silver-gilt

1849

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN 

The set comprises one twin-bottle inkstand with central bowl, one velvet covered letter box with key, one velvet covered blotter, one paperweight cast as a dragon, one inkwell shaped as a turret with dragon finial, one bell with carved ivory handle, one pen rest, one chamber candlestick with a cast dragon handle, one tapering vase, one paper-clip with a cast dragon, two photograph frames, one candle-snuffer and one paper-knife.