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il gattopardo (luchino visconti, 1963)
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Trofarello. Castello Conte Vagnone
Arthur Spear - Sunrise (1921)
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Rainer Maria Rilke, from Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose; “The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke,"
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Fragment ul. Hetmańskiej we Lwowie (1930-1939).
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Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy - Moonlit night (1880)
[...] the expression on her face was ageless, haunting, as though she possessed in her lithe body an old soul that could not die; centuries in time looked out from those two eyes, she had contemplated life so long it had become indifferent to her.
Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel, 1951
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Nestorivskyi Alley in Kyiv, 1981
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Villa del Nevoso
Nothing can be as peaceful and endless as a long winter darkness, going on and on, like living in a tunnel where the dark sometimes deepens into night and sometimes eases to twilight, you’re screened from everything, protected, even more alone than usual. You wait and hide like a tree.
Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver (tr. by Thomas Teal), 1982
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• Evening Dress of V.V. Karakhan.
Designer/Maker: House of Paquin
Date: ca. 1913
Medium: Satin, chiffon, rep, silver lace, necklace, beads.
Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us.
Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn, 1936
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The Devil Commands (Edward Dmytryk, 1941)
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Trędowata, 1976
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, 1911
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, S1Ep4 "The Solitary Cyclist" (1984)