between the desire and the spasm

@gnossienne / gnossienne.tumblr.com

"the atrocious loneliness of that monster!" [ A ]. companionably reclusive and socially unacceptable; inescapably imperious but emotionally absent; chronically craving and unremittingly remote; and vicariously versed in all manner of vice.

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Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall

#sacred and profane #quotations

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summers-in-hollywood

Sophia Loren during the filming of The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1963

#film #les femmes #all these poses of classical torture

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Evgeny Sergeev - Eifman Ballet - photo by Karina Romanova • Фотограф СПБ

#tanz tanz!#les hommes

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longscreamechoing

Udo Kier in Blood For Dracula. 1974.

#monochrome #thespians #vampyr

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electricpentacle

Hélène Cixous, Love of the Wolf

#love as hunger #the beast within #quotations #cixous

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martyrdom

Source: xtheeyes.carrd.co

#arte moderne #sacred and profane

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Akira Kurosawa

- The Idiot

(1951)

#film #monochrome #subtitular wisdom

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cimmerianweathers

Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower Thomas Cole Oil on canvas c. 1838

#art #19th century #ruins

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Anja Niemi

The Flower Room, 2016

#les femmes #stylings #photography

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Danuta Leszczyńska-Kluza, 1926-2019

Lucretia [Winged Victory of Samothrace], 2000, oil on canvas, 180x125 cm

National Museum (Warsaw), Inv. MPW 4116 MNW

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feministclassicist

Algeria.Algiers.School for Fine Arts. A student next to a classical statue.1990

#all these poses of classical torture #photography

from On the Street 1980–1990 (photographs by Amy Arbus)

#arbus #les femmes #vintage #photography #monochrome

Palazzo Farnese (x)

#architecture #interior

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Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

#pessoa #literature #quotations #nostalgia #beauty in words

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#dreams of flight #art

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#dark of the church

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Henry Fuseli, Dante swooning before the soaring souls of Paolo and Francesca, 1818

#fuseli #la divina commedia #dante #illustration #là-bas #19th century

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