A Sentimental Story of a Dreamer

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 3 May 1931 (via dearestvita)

Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Ingrid Bergman in Orléans, France.

Undated autochrome of a water lily garden. Photograph by Franklin Price Knott, National Geographic

Audrey Hepburn visiting the medieval village of Eze, near Monaco, 1951

'run a botanical garden? why darling, i would love to'

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

yesss my lilies-of-the-valley are in full bloom

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

Gloucestershire - December 2020
Rolleicord Vb on Lomography 800

1st class smoking room of R.M.S. Olympic

Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief (يـومـيـات الـحـزن الـعـادي), 1973

Music box by Faberge for the 25th anniversary of Prince Felix Yusupov and Princess Zinaida Yusupova, 1907.

Oil on canvas