Spectrum analysis. 1869. Book cover.
I have always liked to take a breath of the evening, to smell the air, whether it is sweetly scented and balmy with the flowers of midsummer, pungent with the bonfires and leaf-mould of autumn, or crackling cold from frost and snow.
Susan Hill, from “The Woman in Black”
I am full of love for every one. And everything is soft and vague and very sad. It is sad, it is sad. But everything has meaning,
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
All the world will be your enemy.
Forugh Farrokhzad, from Let Us Believe In the Beginning of the Cold Season; "Sin,"
Virginia Woolf, from "Geraldine and Jane" in The Complete Works
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[ID: Photo of a black cat in a fuzzy sheep costume sitting on a floral backdrop. The cat looks somewhat grouchy.]
Two women napping on an 11th St. fire escape to catch a cool breeze on Aug. 30, 1948.
Ivy clad ruins…. inside a medieval church at Bishop’s Quarter, Co Clare