the 11th of February

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, 

it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. 

I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

- Sylvia Plath -

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"There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance."

"I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me."

- Alexander McQueen -

destroy all monsters

- Niagara -

source: here

kisses of death

artwork by Félicien Rops

La Mort au bal masqué, 1895

Dinner with Atheists, 1882

Human Parody, 1878-81

La Buveuse d'absinthe, 1877

La Peine de mort, 1863

Satan Sowing Seeds (from Les Sataniques), 1882

Kisses of Death, 1893

(source: here)

the Nativity of Christ

Merry Christmas!

Nativity by Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308-11

Adoration (unfinished) by Leonardo da Vinci, 1481-2

'the ambiguous realm of the undetermined'

artwork by symbolist painter Odilon Redon

The Golden Cell, 1892

Angel in Chains

Intelligence was Mine! I Became the Buddha (plate 12), 1896

The Boat (Virgin with Corona)

Reflection

Madness, 1883

The Mask of the Red Death, 1883

Closed Eyes

Closed Eyes

Death: "It is I who make you serious; 

let us embrace each other" (plate 20), 1896

He falls, head-first, into the abyss (plate 17), 1896

Lady Macbeth

Mystical Conversation, 1896

Oannès: I, the first consciousness of chaos, arose from the abyss 

that I might harden matter, and give law unto forms (plate 14), 1896

Melancholy, 1876

False Glory, 1885

Still Life - The Dream, c.1904

Lenore

Portrait of Madame Gustave Fayet, 1907

The Death of Ophelia, 1905

Ophelia, 1900-05

Vision

Eye Balloon 1898

The Yellow Cape, 1895

(source: here)