Par le pouvoir d'un mot je recommence ma vie

inthelightinthesound: somewhere beyond the barricade, is there...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:07:58 +0200

somewhere beyond the barricade, is there a world you long to see?

bestiario: “Mi sembra che la cultura sia un po’ piccola. Tutti mi dicono: Leggi! Una noia...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:54:28 +0200

“Mi sembra che la cultura sia un po’ piccola. Tutti mi dicono: Leggi! Una noia terribile. La cultura è una cosa che è esplosa. Io penso di non vivere più nella società della cultura. Sento che il mondo è esploso, che stiamo vivendo una esplosione cosmica. La cultura è già passata, finita. Forse non è nemmeno un male che sia finita.”

— Marco Ferreri- 1995 (via dadaunpo)

Why Doesn't Mrs Dalloway Get a Day of Her Own?

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:23:22 +0200

Why Doesn't Mrs Dalloway Get a Day of Her Own?:

This needs to happen.

PLEASE fellow lit fans, let’s do it!

Mrs Woodhull (detail) by Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) oil on...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:21:02 +0200

Mrs Woodhull (detail) by Johann Zoffany (1733-1810)

oil on canvas, ca. 1770

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:17:00 +0200

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:36:26 +0200

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), dir. Alain Resnais

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:25:22 +0200

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), dir. Alain Resnais

randomramblingsofhayley: Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson in...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:24:03 +0200

randomramblingsofhayley:

Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson in “Funny Face” (1957)

The lights are going out all across Europe.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:23:38 +0200

The lights are going out all across Europe.

biancolatte: Nessuno è atteso. Ma è tirata la tenda.È tutto cumoli il marciapiede, ingombro il...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:23:11 +0200

biancolatte:

Nessuno è atteso. Ma è tirata la tenda.
È tutto cumoli il marciapiede, ingombro il terrazzino.
Ricordo non agitarti! Saldati a me! Credi
e fammi credere che sono un tutt’uno con te.

Borìs Pasternàk

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:21:56 +0200

qichi: detail of a portrait of maria fyodorovna by konstantin...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:17:17 +0200

qichi:

detail of a portrait of maria fyodorovna by konstantin makovsky

#wicked cool art that isn’t fanart #well alright #i guess this is russian monarchy fanart #but that fandom kind of fizzled out in the early 20th century

unafoden: history meme | [6/10] moments → the suicide of...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:15:56 +0200

unafoden:

history meme | [6/10] moments → the suicide of virginia woolf
“dearest, i feel certain that i am going mad again. i feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. and i shan’t recover this time. i begin to hear voices, and i can’t concentrate. so i am doing what seems the best thing to do. you have given me the greatest possible happiness. you have been in every way all that anyone could be. i don’t think two people could have been happier ‘til this terrible disease came. i can’t fight any longer. i know that i am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. and you will i know. you see i can’t even write this properly. i can’t read. what i want to say is i owe all the happiness of my life to you. you have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. i want to say that—everybody knows it. if anybody could have saved me it would have been you. everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. i can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. i don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been. v.”

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:37:00 +0200

mudwerks: (via Victorian / Edwardian Paintings: Stella...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:36:11 +0200

mudwerks:

(via Victorian / Edwardian Paintings: Stella Duckworth)

Stella Duckworth - daughter of Virginia Woolf

she was not Virginia’s daughter. Virginia didn’t have any children.

Stella was the daugher of Herbert Duckworth and Julia Prinsep, who later married Leslie Stephen. Stella is therefore Virginia’s stepsister. (My lit-geekness is showing)

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:31:01 +0200

sangfroidwoolf: Herbert and Julia Duckworth, photographed in...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:23:10 +0200

sangfroidwoolf:

Herbert and Julia Duckworth, photographed in 1867, possibly by Oscar G. Rejlander.

sangfroidwoolf: Virginia Woolf and Robert Bridges, in a...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:19:31 +0200

sangfroidwoolf:

Virginia Woolf and Robert Bridges, in a photograph taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell, dated 26 June 1926.

thevictorianlady: Oscar Wilde photographed by Napoleon Sarony,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:17:58 +0200

thevictorianlady:

Oscar Wilde photographed by Napoleon Sarony, 1882.

These photographs were taken in January of 1882, when Wilde had first arrived in America for his year long lecture tour. All were taken in the studio of the most famous portrait photographer of the time, Canadian born Napoleon Sarony. The various furs, capes, velvet jackets, and stockings Wilde wore for the photo shoot reflected the attire he would wear to his lectures.

It certainly surprised me when I found out that the majority of Wilde’s most iconic images came from the same session, and were taken in the U.S. when Wilde had only published a yet to be produced play, Vera; or, the Nihilists, and a single book of verse (which Wilde can be seen holding in the first and second photographs).

when you feel you have lost everything, you still have

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:12:35 +0200

dearscience:

books

unexpected kindness in strangers

the rest of the world to travel

languages to learn

animals to take care of

volunteer work to do

the power of a good night’s rest

the changing of seasons

infinite things to learn

billions of people to meet and possibly love

billions of people who might love you back