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“Ophélie” by Constantin Meunier, 1831-1905

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― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[text ID: The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.]

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favorite duos (of all time and kind): christine daaé & erik (the phantom), the phantom of the opera. ↳ “in sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came. that voice which calls to me and speaks my name. and do i dream again, for now i find the phantom of the opera is there, inside my mind.”

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Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre

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• aesthetic : Tudor Dynasty •

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• Russian Dark Academia •

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• Moodboard : Russian Melancholy •

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❝Когда нас бьют без причины, мы должны отвечать ударом на удар, - я уверена в этом - и притом с такой силой, чтобы навсегда отучить людей бить нас.❞

Charlotte Brontë, "Jane Eyre"

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❝Я отдала ему сердце, а он взял его, насмерть исколол и швырнул мне обратно.❞

- Emily Brontë, "Withering Heights"

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• Mikhail Bulgakov :

"Master and Margarita" •

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❝Прости меня и как можно скорее забудь. Я тебя покидаю навек. Не ищи меня, это бесполезно. Я стала ведьмой от горя и бедствий, поразивших меня. Мне пора, прощай.❞

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- Moonlight -

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.

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’The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde (quoted from ‘Hamlet’)

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Detail of 'Female Saint Holding a Book' by Amico Aspertini (italian, 1474 – 1552)

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• Morana - Slavic Mythology •

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Morana /Marzanna/ - slavic goddess of winter and death. In slavic rites the death of goddess Morana at the end of the winter becomes rebirth of spring

Every year in March, polish kids make marzanna dolls and do procession to the nearest river just to throw her effigy to water. After this ritual the spring begans and winter ends.

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