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Botticelli c. 1483-1485, Birth of Venus

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“Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in your name, and beyond the grave they will find only death. But we will keep the secret, and for their own happiness we will entice them with a heavenly and eternal reward.”

— The Grand Inquisitor to his “Savior” in The Brothers Karamazov

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“I wanted something elegant and soothing, but still with a pop of color, so I added the high-backed Boden chairs in Vance Rose with a little ottoman.” The seating is from Room & Board. #dwell #kitchykitchen #moderndesign

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“Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.”

— Theodore Roethke, from The Collected Poems; “In A Dark Time,”

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“For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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“Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.”

— Marcus Aurelius - Meditations, IV, 17

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“Many grains of incense fall on the same altar: one sooner, another later- it makes no difference.”

— Marcus Aurelius - Meditations, IV, 15

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Elise Joseph

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(via Interiors | Grey & White Swedish Apartment)

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I’d be lying if I said you make me speechless the truth is you make my tongue so weak it forget what language to speak ~rupi kaur

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The best advice I’ve ever received: ‘no one else knows what they are doing either.’

Charles Bukowski (via fy-perspectives)

Something I ALWAYS say!

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Stretched by Spaceman 

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I will love you louder than your demons.

Kriti.G (via wnq-writers)