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From Something That May Shock And Discredit You, Daniel Lavery

In every life there are events that reshape one’s sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.

Annie Proulx, Barkskins (via quotespile)

be handed a letter by your maid, break the wax seal, read it with dawning understanding and then slowly look up into the middle-distance with an ominous smirk. order your carriage to be prepared at once. 

late 19th century perfume bottles

ig: @luciazolea

Shout out to the people who kissed the Poe statue at the Poe museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I’m watching over it for no one but myself.

Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973 (via larmoyante)