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Extremely unusual Victorian perfume bottle in the shape of a sword, fitted with a ring to hang from a chatelaine.

Left: A bust of Aphrodite Right: Greek model Angie Karantoni

Clouds from various renaissance paintings.

"a pause from reading" by wilhelm menzler / excerpt from thirst, by mary oliver.

May 24 | studying chemistry surrounded by manuscripts

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Les Fleurs d'Abricots, 1944

Dvorak, Antonin

"The poet is born, not made"

Daniel Lincoln

Who’s ready for Fall Baked Goods?

’The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde (published in 1890)

You wake up in the morning and think: I’ll be fine! I will smile at everyone, radiate love and warmth, bring food to homeless cats and dogs, and in critical cases, I will think and keep my mouth shut.

p. i. tchaikovsky. letters (sotheby's)

Susan Sontag’s annotated Finnegans Wake [via @HamishH1931]