If you feel sad, a walk in nature always clears your mind and heals it.
George Barbier - Illustrations for Les Liaisons Dangereuses
no one paints portraits of their lover’s decaying soul and moral corruption’s physical manifestation to keep their lover themself youthful anymore 😔 they don’t do it like they used to 😔
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Ofelia by Ernest Hébert, c. 1910 (details)
Café Kiss and Tell Me More by Ron Hicks
they both die at the end
i haven’t cried about a book like this for so long, so beautiful and heartbreaking. i can feel my heart breaking in my chest
“did finding each other, kill us?” - rufus
Mahmoud Darwish, from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems; “The Hoopoe,”
María Cristina de Borbon, Queen of Spain (detail). By Vicente López Portaña, 1830