Courage, dear heart

Mr Darcy isn't a good love interest because he is dark and somber

Mr Darcy is a good love interest because he is not dark and somber. That's the point of the book. She doesn't like him when he is selfish, full of himself and impolite. She loves him when she get to know him and realise that's absolutely not who he is

oliviero toscani in italian eyes: italian fashion photographs from 1951 to today - fondazione pitti immagiine discovery (2005)

Clarice Lispector, from “Raging Against the Typewriter”, Selected Cronicas (tr. Giovanni Pontiero)

1924 “The Shoe” by Lino Selvatico. From Art Deco, Art Nouveau and 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Evening Dress, c.1840

“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

Photo by Paolo Abate

Ballet Impressions by David Street.

Azar du Marest, from Charles Baudelaire’s Harmonie du Soir, 1899.

“Willow Chant, Ivy Song” by Seraphine Saintclair

Two bracelets in the form of a snake (gold), from Egypt. Dated back to the Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 395 AD. Now in the Louvre.

Bran Castle - “Dracula’s Castle Romania. Ad Italia, Febbraio 1985. Foto - Billy Cunningham

Władysław Czachórski 

Polish, 1850–1911

List (detail)

A black head or hat ribbon worn by Marie Antoinette.

Image source: My scan