Usure Yuku

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Olga Kosakiewicz, featured in "A Dangerous Liaison,"

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Dvidow-Goodman written c. 1951, featured in The Collected Letters

Stitching the Standard, (Detail), (1911), by Edmund Blair Leighton (English, 1852 – 1922), oil on canvas, 98 cm (38.5 in) x 44 cm (17.3 in), Private Collection

Illusions, (Detail), (before 1901), by Henry Brown Fuller (American, 1867 – 1934), oil on canvas, 70 3/8 x 45 1/8 in (178.6 x 114.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

The end of a dream, c. 1908 by Giuseppe Pennasilico (Italian, 1861--1940)

We stress too much for a life that can end at any time.

Klassische Ruinen mit einer Jungfrau im Vordergrund, 1915 by Eduard Büchler (Austrian, 1861-1958)

Roman Ruin at Twilight (Ferdinand Knab, 1894)

“Cantref y Gwaelod" by Alan Lee