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the first person who decided to blow a kiss had the right idea; but the first person who decided to catch it????? definitely had the right idea

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It requires so much forgiveness to live a life. 

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Pride and Prejudice (1995)

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notice how nobody’s tweeting “let’s finally talk about male victim stats” it’s all “yess finally i can call that stupid fucking slut a cunt and never believe women which i evidently never have before because they’ve been to court thrice but i only believe the verdict against her in the only trial that wasn’t with a sequestered jury!” because it was always about misogyny 🤠 fuck all of you and if i so much as hear a depp defender round the block then square up lmfao

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~ The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (1993)

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I love you, far-sighted night. Emblaze me, make ash of me,

Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Robert Chandler, from “Black as the Pupil of an Eye,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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not to sound like a medieval peasant or a catholic but i resent anti-carb propaganda so much like bread will never be evil it is holy it is divine it is one of life’s most simple yet decadent pleasures. love is stored in the bread

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–Mary Oliver

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Jill Stuart — airy tint watery CC cream & jelly lip gloss

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Antique French brooch containing a hand-embroidered Sacred Heart of Jesus, 19th century.

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…I have known with certainty that the worst things, and even despair, are only a kind of abundance and an onslaught of existence that one decision of the heart could turn into its opposite. Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Anita Forrer, February 14, 1920 (via luthienne)

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By how to look at her I mean, of course, into her: past the brilliant costume to the very blue flame of her heart.

– Ann Packer, from “My Mother’s Yellow Dress,” Mendocino and Other Stories (Vintage, 2003)

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