trio of love songs

"The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell. In this house..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:23:07 -0500

“The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell. In this house they think themselves happy; in that witty; in a third profound. It is all an illusion (which is nothing against it, for illusions are the most valuable and necessary of all things, and she who can create one is among the world’s greatest benefactors), but as it is notorious that illusions are shattered by conflict with reality, so no real happiness, no real wit, no real profundity are tolerated where the illusion prevails.”

- Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf

Photo

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:26:48 -0500

nocturne in c-sharp minor; frédéric chopin

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:02:58 -0500

nocturne in c-sharp minor; frédéric chopin

fuckyeahemmathompson:

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:35:21 -0500

fuckyeahemmathompson:

"Perhaps I feel about you as the artist does about the scene over which his soul has brooded with..."

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:57:10 -0500

“Perhaps I feel about you as the artist does about the scene over which his soul has brooded with love; he would tremble to see it confided to other hands; he would never believe that it could bear for another all the meaning and the beauty it bears for him.”

- ‘The Mill on the Floss’, George Eliot (via inwaves) (via candleinthewind)