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1990s Christian Lacroix dangle clip on earrings

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desiderium

(dɛs ɪˈdɪər i əm), noun | an ardent longing for something or someone you lost; a yearning grief.

etymology: Desiderium comes from the Latin verb dēsīderāre, meaning “to long for; require.”

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Julio Cortázar y sus gatos

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there’s nothing wrong with admitting you were once toxic.

there’s nothing wrong with admitting you made a couple people feel like shit.

there’s nothing wrong with admitting you fucked up and were horribly arrogant and parasitic.

there’s nothing wrong with admitting you did anyone wrong, especially if you’ve learned from it. If you’re humble enough to admit it, I guarentee there’s a bit of a good person inside of you. 

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My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to. Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small. You never need to carry more than you can hold. And while you’re out there getting where you’re getting to. I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too. Yeah, this, is my wish.

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whale sharks are docile, slow moving filter feeders that feed by drifting with their capacious mouths open, drawing in plankton, fish, and small crustaceans. but foreign objects, such as plastic, can also be drawn into the shark’s digestive system, causing them harm.

whale sharks, the largest non mammalian vertebrates on the planet, originated some sixty million years ago, but are now listed as a vulnerable species, coming under particular threat from boat propellers and pollution. they are also hunted for their fins, though the u.a.e. banned the shark fin trade in 2008

photos by marine biologist thomas peschak n the gulf of tadjoura, djibouti

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Somewhere Only We Know

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Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow.

Paolo Coelho (via lazypacific)

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If Famous Artists Made Thanksgiving Dinner by Hannah Rothstein Related: Famous Paintings on Bread by Ida Frosk

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Catherine Deneuve by Robert Maxwell

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Irving Penn // Gianfranco Ferre for Dior - 1993

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“I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”

— Vita Sackville West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 21 January 1926.

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“All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead, we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.”

Don Miguel Ruiz

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"I like very different type of people, different type of beauty, different type of living." - Jean Paul Gaultier