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aurens; a playlist inspired by seven pillars of wisdom

mumford&sons: nothing is written // raise my hands, paint my spirit gold

mumford&sons: awake my soul // lend me your hand and we’ll conquer them all; but lend me your heart and i’ll just let you fall 

pj harvey: the big guns called me back again // there was laughing and i could not laugh; there was singing and i could not sing

the wright brothers: blood on my hands (vocals) // oh lazarus, how did your debts get paid

choir of young believers: hollow talk // darkness rises in all you do

sara lov: my body is a cage // i’m standing on a stage of fear and self-doubt; it’s a hollow play but they’ll clap anyway

the civil wars: poison&wine // oh, i don’t love you; but i always will

shearwater: i was a cloud // into the burning eye of the sun without feeling

David Bowie as Major Jack ‘Strafer’ Celliers in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

You are breaking my heart. — Elisabeth Hewer

‘The Golden Daric’ collection by Shiva Safai x Noush Jewellery — inspired by the monetary standard of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

(x)

Basically Sherif Ali and Lawrence

les miserables 1964: Grantaire and Enjolras after Le Cabuc’s execution

les miserables 1964: Marius and les amis

In Dorne, she walked among vipers and none would bite her. But in King’s Landing, she found herself surrounded by lions.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888) details.

he’s near at hand yet here I stand my heart and mind at war… the times must change the world must change

Vivien Leigh getting into costume in St. Martin’s Lane (1938)

~“There is no other man I know who could have achieved what Lawrence did. As for taking undue credit for himself, my own personal experience with Lawrence is that he was utterly unconcerned whether any kudos was awarded him or not. “~  

Edmund Allenby, commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force to Lowell Thomas.

Dirck Jacobsz, Detail of Portrait of Pompeius Occo, 1534

The brilliant Danish actress Asta Nielsen starring as a female Hamlet in 1921.

Here are some gifs of Hamlet and Horatio being very friendly and heterosexual in Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) with Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine 

Donn P. Crane (1878 - 1944) - Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy

ｓｔｒｅｅｔｓ ｉｎ ｆｌｏｒｅｎｃｅ. - { italian places meme.} “O animal grazioso e benigno che visitando vai per l’aere perso noi che tignemmo il mondo di sanguigno, se fosse amico il re de l’universo, noi pregheremmo lui de la tua pace, poi c’hai pietà del nostro mal perverso. Di quel che udire e che parlar vi piace, noi udiremo e parleremo a voi, mentre che ‘l vento, come fa, ci tace. Siede la terra dove nata fui su la marina dove ‘l Po discende per aver pace co’ seguaci sui. Amor, ch’al cor gentil ratto s’apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e ‘l modo ancor m’offende. Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona, mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, che, come vedi, ancor non m’abbandona. Amor condusse noi ad una morte: Caina attende chi a vita ci spense”. Inferno, canto V.

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947)

“We all need discipline. You said yourself they’re like children. Without discipline, we should all behave like children“ Black Narcissus (1947) dir.  Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

 Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

To S.A.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Shadows and Silhouettes

No man needs nothing.

Pipe-smoking hunks: David Farrar edition

Black Narcissus (1947)

Behind the scenes of Lawrence of Arabia

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!”

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964 (x)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein)

The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein,1925)

It is the future that we bring when tomorrow comes!

My Little Princess (2011)

― Kait Rokowski [insp]

“Is it the blood? The desert has dried up more blood than you could think of.”