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Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo van Gogh

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A Woman lighting a cigarette near a cafe window Gordon Parks, Paris, 1964

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Evening Cape of Brocaded Silk

c. 1925

American

Kent State University Museum

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Lovely lace designs.

The Lady’s Book. New York [etc: Godey Co. [etc.]., 1830

Feb. 1839

Godey’s Lady’s Book (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1840). Philadelphia, Pa: L.A. Godey, 1840.

May, 1841

Oct. 1854

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Antique sewing kit circa 1870

Photographer unknown - found on Pinterest. Please dm me if you know who to credit 🤍

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Cat & kitten gargoyle, Château de pierrefonds, france, built between 1857-1885

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Marc Chagall

Every piece of art is a light in the darkness.

Marc Chagall

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eternity by william blake

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William Blake (1757–1827), “Our Time is Fix’d” (watercolour illustration, 1808) 

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Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass

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victorian mussel shaped vinaigrette in handcrafted silver, engraved 'Lucy'. 1876.

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Langston Hughes

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The little girl’s sense of secrecy that developed at prepuberty only grows in importance. She closes herself up in fierce solitude: she refuses to reveal to those around her the hidden self that she considers to be her real self and that is in fact an imaginary character: she plays at being a dancer like Tolstoy’s Natasha, or a saint like Marie Leneru, or simply the singular wonder that is herself. There is still an enormous difference between this heroine and the objective face that her parents and friends recognize in her. She is also convinced that she is misunderstood: her relationship with herself becomes even more passionate: she becomes intoxicated with her isolation, feels different, superior, exceptional: she promises that the future will take revenge on the mediocrity of her present life. From this narrow and petty existence she escapes by dreams.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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Art Nouveau style Robe du Soir by Baron Christoff von Drecoll, Les Modes Paris, 1914