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Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears, and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries, Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight, As brilliant and as bright As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes, Lost in a soft amaze I gaze, I gaze

— John Keats 

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A scrimshawed and polychromed double comb, sailors love token, British, mid 19th century

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lemon water got me acting unwise

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summer really is like. this iced coffee is all that's standing between me and incredible violence.

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The Birth of Venus (painting), 1860

by Adolf-Hiremy Hirschl.

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Cymbidium Scarlet Beauty ‘After Dark’

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[Untitled] (Daphnis Draws the Grasshopper from Chloe’s Bosom), Aristide Maillol, 1937, Brooklyn Museum: European Art

Size: Sheet: 7 ¾ x 5 1/8 in. (19.7 x 13 cm) Image: 3 9/16 x 3 1/8 in. (9 x 7.9 cm) Medium: Woodcut on handmade laid paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/163002

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Johann Eduard Jacobsthal, “Süd-italienische Fliesen-Ornamente”, South italian tile ornaments, 1886. Chromolithography. Published by Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen, Germany. Source: archive.org. Via frizzifrizzi

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