If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine—which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having being a monstrosity—it is the key to many reservations.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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Wednesday, 22nd May
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt holding flowers, from the opening scene of Gismonda, a Greek melodrama in four acts by Victorien Sardou that premiered in 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris.
Studio of Georges Clairin, unsigned, oil on lithographic image on tooled gilt leather mounted to stretcher bars, 34”×23”.
(Source: 23silence, via fuckyeahvictorians)
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Wednesday, 22nd May
Lakshmi Menon & Kamal Sidhu in “Objects of Desire”; photographed by Prabuddha Dasgupta for the October 2007 issue of Vogue India.
(via theremina)
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Tuesday, 21st May
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Ruth Bernhard
Hips, Horizontal, 1975
Gelatin silver print
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