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Russborough House, Ireland

Photo by me 

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vogue spain feb 2019, by mar ordonez

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Valentino Haute Couture S/S 2013

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“glistening with the sea’s wild baths,”

— Anaïs Nin, from “The Spy in the House of Love”  

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“It is part of her beauty, this quality of being not quite there, dreamlike.” - Anaïs Nin

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“C’est comme pour la fleur. Si tu aimes une fleur qui se trouve dans une étoile, c’est doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel. Toutes les étoiles sont fleuries.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince, 1943

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La beauté de l'âme illumine tout un visage [...]

— Pierre Louÿs, Aphrodite

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““Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.””

— -Mark Twain (via flora-file)

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“You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.” —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Öd’ und leer das Meer.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Burial of the Dead (via theperfumemaker)

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A Detail Of A Decomposing Moth Wing at Yiqing Yin Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014!

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“You are a lover; borrow Cupid’s wings, And soar with them above a common bound.”

— Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet (1.4.15-16)

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a victorian silver perfume flask shaped as a rose, e. stockwell, london, 1881 .

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brigitte bardot in france: spring of 1952

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Les Mistons, 1957