French perfume bottles.

details of the court theater of the royal palace of caserta: caserta, italy.

Aug 10, 2020 - Fifth espresso of the day, I remain baffled as to why I can’t sleep at night!

Cornelis van Spaendonck, Still Life with Flowers, 1789 (detail)

okay get this: perfumes with the names of classical pieces

baudelaire for the signs

Aries: “What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?” Taurus: “Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.” Gemini: “To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world.” Cancer:  “I am the vampire at my own veins.” Leo: “Angels would damn themselves for me.” Virgo: “I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.” Libra: “Swan-white of heart; I smile not ever neither do I weep. I am as lovely as a dream in stone.” Scorpio: “Do not look for my heart any more, the beasts have eaten it.” Sagittarius: “One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.” Capricorn: “We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. ” Aquarius: “Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” Pisces: “The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds, who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day. But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, he cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”

the me that buys books and the me that reads them, are two different people.

Little Women (1994)

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Brooch, 1880s, St. Petersburg, Russia.

PixCell-Deer#24

Kohei Nawa (Japanese, born 1975), Heisei period (1989–present)

2011

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