Bracelet, Greece 1st c. BCE[960x776]
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A phenomenally enameled silver Swept-hilt Rapier, Germany, ca. 1606, housed at the Staaliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden [960 x 860]
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Ensemble of jewelry belonging to Queen Puabi. Sumerian, dating to around 2450 BC, made with gold, lapis, carnelian, agate, and shell. [1600x2642]
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Downton Abbey (2019) dir. Michael Engler.
“Her skin’s as soft as that of certain fruits, you can’t grasp her, she’s almost illusory, it’s too much.”— Marguerite Duras, from The Lover.
(via xshayarsha)
“I am rain and belong to no one.”— Marguerite Duras, from No More
(via violentwavesofemotion)
“I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”— Death, The Book Thief
– Jacques Derrida’s library
“Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror.”
— GEORGES BATAILLE