L'Antico Regime

Angela Carter, from The Collected Stories; "The Lady of the House of Love,"

At the age of eighty-two Monet discovered that he had a cataract. The deterioration of his eyesight was horrifying to the artist, who wrote, 'I realized with terror that I could see nothing with my right eye .. a specialist... told me that I had a cataract and that the other eye was also slightly affected. It's in vain that they tell me it's not serious, that after the operation I will see as before, I'm very disturbed and anxious,' In 1923 he was operated on three times to try and correct his right eye. The brilliant fiery reds and yellows of Water Lilies - Japanese Bridge, 1923 are indicative of the impaired sight of the artist, seeing his bridge within a reduced palette. Yet it is the most evocative sum of color and light and composition, creating on overall startlingly emotive effect.

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "More About This Summer,"

Three young barn owls standing in the stone quatrefoil of Christ Church, Fulmodeston.

—Virginia Woolf.

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"Eos" by Emile Corsi, 1860

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Hanna Wolff written c. August 1912

— Osho (via minuty)