“The combination of that brilliant brain and fragile body is very loveable. She has a sweet and childlike nature, from which her intellect is completely separate. I have never known anyone who was so profoundly sensitive, and who makes less of a business of that sensitiveness.”
Vita Sackville-West, describing Virginia Woolf, from a letter c. August 1928
Vincent Van Gogh’s letters with sketches and studies
The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)
Polish editions of Moomin books from 1970 & 1980
this user wants to lay down in a field of flowers for a bit.
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When trips to Mars become possible, we should put Golden Tickets in Mars bars.
Plants 🌱
Frida Kahlo, Photo by Gisèle Freund,1948
All i do is screenshot and forget it’s in my camera roll