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𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔬𝔟𝔬𝔯𝔬𝔰

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes | Summer, 1891 | The Bathers, c.1890 - 1891 | Young Girls by the Sea, 1894 | The Toilette, 1883 |

Day date or night date? Following the (example of the) Gods, 1899 (1879), by Henryk Siemiradzki

Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper-Chekhova featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,

Hōsui Yamamoto (1850-1906) – Rafu, 1880

Kissing the finger she made a pinky promise with... there is an incredible level of pining and yearning on display here

Photo by Oleksii Ivanytskyi, Kharkiv region, end of the ХІХ century

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

Irina Ionesco (1930–2022), “Vampire” 1970

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,"