Bellezza è destino

Dieric Bouts, The Ascension of the Elect (detail), c. 1470

— Nikos Kavvadias, excerpt of Fata Morgana 

Mandy Aftel, Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Venice.

— Ernest Hemingway, from “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” written c. 1940

The photo was taken by photographer Claude Azoulay in Paris in 1961, when she was sitting in a cafe on Boulevard Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

— Sara Pujol Russell, from “Thinking Late Afternoon”, translated from Spanish by Noël Valis (via finita–la–commedia)

Photographed by Josefine Seifert for Cecilie Bahnsen ‘Encore’ Collection.

— Pentti Saarikoski, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry: “A Fortunate Time,”

9/7/1959- Milan, Italy: Millionaire Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis, with opera star Maria Meneghini Callas outside the LaScala Opera House here

— Delmira Agustini, from “The Intruder”, translated by Alejandro Cáceres 

— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Quando corpus morietur, fac ut animae donetur paradisi gloria. Amen. When my body dies, grant that to my soul is given the glory of paradise. Amen.