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About me: I'm French, a woman, a lover of Classical Music and Literature... among other things.
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schubertiade:

Federico Mompou — 6 Charmes; 2. Lent (…pour pénétrer les âmes)
Performed by Jordi Masó, piano

So subtle and impalpable and gradual and everything that’s in my head right now. 

— 28 minutes ago with 2 notes
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pixandum:

-Erik Satie, Satie: Gnossiennes - 5. Modéré-

(via monseuldesir)

— 37 minutes ago with 51 notes
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
Thomas Paine (via dragonsandwich)

(via paintingsilentpoetry)

— 43 minutes ago with 31 notes
flasd:

Papilio ulysses (The Ulysses butterfly) by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India :.
London, Printed for the author by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Messrs, Rivingtons, Str. Paul’s Church Yard; White, Fleet Street, Faulder, Bond Street; and H. D. Symonds, Patersonter Row,1800..

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25495016

flasd:

Papilio ulysses (The Ulysses butterfly) by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India :.

London, Printed for the author by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Messrs, Rivingtons, Str. Paul’s Church Yard; White, Fleet Street, Faulder, Bond Street; and H. D. Symonds, Patersonter Row,1800..

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25495016

(Source: scientificillustration, via wampuintheylangylang)

— 44 minutes ago with 88 notes
mondonoir:

Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich, The Black Sea (A storm begins to whip up in the Black Sea), 1881, oil on canvas

[From The State Tretyakov Gallery]

mondonoir:

Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich, The Black Sea (A storm begins to whip up in the Black Sea), 1881, oil on canvas

[From The State Tretyakov Gallery]

(via schubertiade)

— 45 minutes ago with 19 notes
"Why is the word yes so brief?
It should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
so that upon reflection you could stop
in the middle of saying it."
Vera Pavlova, from “If There Is Something to Desire” (via proustitute)
— 45 minutes ago with 190 notes

Auden & Isherwood

Auden & Isherwood

(Source: gnossienne)

— 46 minutes ago with 17 notes
themetropolitanline:

Berthe Morisot with a Fan - Edouard Manet, 1872
(via lacontessa, sisterwolf)

themetropolitanline:

Berthe Morisot with a Fan - Edouard Manet, 1872

(via lacontessa, sisterwolf)

(via monseuldesir)

— 46 minutes ago with 40 notes