“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
❝ No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.❞ ──𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆, 1989.
art & symbolism: women dressed in pink
seduction, tenderness, femininity, youth, sweetness
𝚅𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚞𝚖𝚜 𝚊𝚝 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚊𝚑𝚑 𝙶𝚘𝚍🏹
C’est Noël
the whispers of another era burrowed within the autumnal winds; kissing the side of my cheek on the way to class.
ig: rosenaufsuden
oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
(ophelia in art x turn of the century portraiture)