“No Man Ever Steps In The Same River Twice, For It’s Not The Same River And He’s Not The Same Man.”

“It is an art of the most exquisite kind to touch someone’s soul before touching their skin.”

— a.y.

“By spring, Beverly’s soul had ascended. She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side, and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.”

- Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1983)

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Gordon Parks, “Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama ”, 1956

Don Cherry

“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”

-Marcus Aurelius

“The little dot we live on.” The Book of knowledge. v. 7. 1912.

(found on the excellent nemfrog, gif by the-eternal-moonshine)

the inherent romanticism of handwritten letters.

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”

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