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“Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them….The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid.” - G.K. Chesterton https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Se2l8lAKkpGteXAJ8iUFo5kS7fhHKNhyxGuY0/?igshid=wv337347jkm8
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“I can’t think of anything but nights with you.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald to Scott Fitzgerald, 1919 (via senyahearts)
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T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Vivienne Haigh Eliot at Woolf’s house, 1932. From Monk’s House album.
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Abraham Lincoln’s photographer smoothed his hair down, but Abe messed it back up again - February 1857, photo by Alexander Hessler {640 x 823}
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