xshayarsha:

“I […] come home at nightfall, tidy my hair, put on my evening shoes and then go off to a party. About ten or eleven, sometimes twelve but never later, I come home, play the piano, have a good cry, read, look at things, have a laugh, get into bed, blow out my candle and always dream about you all.”

Frédéric Chopin’s night routine, from a letter to Jan Matuszynski, Dec. 25th 1830.

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"She is excessively tender-hearted."

Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Orlando: A Biography,” c. 1928
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patroklous:

i’ve never done this before so here we go

reblog for an archive moodboard

quotemadness:

“You should love for no reason.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

novaub313:
“This is such a beautiful photo! Yves Saint Laurent is crying tears of joy on French ballerina, Zizi Jeanmarie’s shoulder after presenting his first collection since having left the Christian Dior fashion house. Zizi Jeanmarie wanted to be...
briqou:
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incolours:
“ “Atheneum today, Bucharest, 17/1/2016
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“by Dragos Asaftei
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“ “Atheneum today, Bucharest, 17/1/2016
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“by Dragos Asaftei
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annabellalovesyou:
“Found this in an antique store the other day and just had to get it.
”annabellalovesyou:
“Found this in an antique store the other day and just had to get it.
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