“The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical.
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity", thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”
― Ways of Seeing
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity", thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”
― Ways of Seeing
“The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“I measure time by the days I've spent away from you/ that thought occurred to me/ as i watched the sky go dark from blue”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be all right.”
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“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
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