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By Steve MacCurry.

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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road–there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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Front cover from The lady of the lake, by Walter Scott, illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock. London, 1904.

(Source: archive.org)

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Henri Matisse

Woman in a Purple Coat

(via @lonequixote)

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Snowdrops  -   Buffy Robinson  2012

British b.1951-

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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W.B. Yeats

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From the Feb. 13 1956 feature “What I like about living in SAN FRANCISCO” written and photographed by LIFE staff photographer Nat Farbman. According to LIFE, Farbman has traveled around the world and lived in glamourous cities like Paris, but he is always drawn back to his hometown of San Francisco.This image ran in the essay with the following caption: “Five minutes from downtown quiet residential backwaters like Pacific Heights look out over the bay.” (📷Nat Farbman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #SanFrancisco #California

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