Perfect non-freedom

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:06:53 -0600

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via forbiddenalleys)

Russian Art Nouveau Photo: Igor Palmin

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:05:00 -0600

Russian Art Nouveau

Photo: Igor Palmin

breastplate; the only signed work of Giovan Paolo Negroli...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:19:46 -0600

breastplate; the only signed work of Giovan Paolo Negroli (Italian, ca. 1513-1569) (x)

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"The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful—"

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:16:25 -0600

“The words the happy say
Are paltry melody
But those the silent feel
Are beautiful—”

- Emily Dickinson, “1750” (via)

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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:02:43 -0600

““There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.””

- Oscar Wilde (via galaxing)

96th Guards Rifle Division victory parade in Babruysk,...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:13:44 -0600

96th Guards Rifle Division victory parade in Babruysk, Belarus.

Vasnetsov: portrait of Ivan Petrov, a Peasant from Vladimir...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:10:44 -0600

Vasnetsov: portrait of Ivan Petrov, a Peasant from Vladimir Province.

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Vintage USSR: Life On The Volga River Photographer Howard...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:33:29 -0600

Vintage USSR: Life On The Volga River

Photographer Howard Sochurek captures daily life on the Volga circa nineteen fifty-eight.

"Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:32:56 -0600

“Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.”

- Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

Thanks to anotherword and feuille-d-automne (via arsvitaest)

"…and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:03:38 -0600

““…and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.””

- Anton Chekhov, About Love (via fyodors)

"In the forest it grows darker and darker. The trees merge into great masses that loom up ever more..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:33:01 -0600

“In the forest it grows darker and darker. The trees merge into great masses that loom up ever more blackly; in the blue sky the first small stars make a timid appearance. The birds are all asleep.”

- Ivan Turgenev, ‘Ermolai and the Miller’s Wife’ (via panoramicchrestomathy)

#saturdaynight

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:44:59 -0600

#saturdaynight

Putivil. Eclipse., Nikolai Roerich, 1914.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:19:03 -0600

Putivil. Eclipse., Nikolai Roerich, 1914.