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St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by vtarnini
fuck summer i want it to be dark and misty and frigid and october




Hi my phone is Nikolai Lantsov themed and I'm going to make it everyone's problem🥰💖
ok but what’s your preferred art and what’s your preferred science?
mine are literature and medicine




Antique Fairytale-esque Chandeliers

Sappho, trans Willis Barnhart
“I was afraid of myself, afraid of God. In the daylight I was less afraid, and death seemed less important. But it haunted me all the time.”
— Marguerite Duras, excerpt from The Lover (via virgin-martyr)

Cupid Carving his Bow, 1535, by Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)

this is one of the most gorgeous lines ever written about the gods but i can’t take it seriously when it’s preceded by menelaus calling apollo a useless bitch
only time ive ever felt loved was when i was eating a red berry parfait and walking to the library but a girl ran smack into me getting us both covered in berries then she grabbed my hand and said "ill never be sorry enough, but you look so beautiful" and she ran away and i just have to live w this empty hole where my heart lay




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y’all ever read a book that’s so good it pretty much takes over you for the rest of the day? like, yeah, i’m walking around, doing what i’m supposed to do, but my mind’s still stuck on that one line that absolutely punched me in the gut when i first saw it. my heart’s still thumping somewhere in-between those pages.

Li Shang-Yin, tr. by John A. Turner, from “A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems,”