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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone
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| — | Orson Welles (via luckyladybirds) |
I started planning this tattoo when I was about 16 and started writing fiction stories and reading almost constantly. It morphed many times throughout planning before I finally fell in love with this design. I was going to have it say “I Cannot Live Without Books” a quote by Thomas Jefferson that I found at the Library of Congress, but once it was finished i decided against the words.
Ink was done by Erin at Creative Images tattoo in Fridley, MN
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.
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| — | Alfred Lord Tennyson (via myquotelibrary) |
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte has been my favourite book for a long time.
“And when friends are on the eve of separation, they like to spend the little time that remains to them close to each other. Come - we’ll talk over the voyage and the parting quietly, half an hour or so, while the stars enter into their shining life up in heaven yonder: here is the chestnut tree; here is the bench at its old roots. Come, we will sit there in peace to-night, though we should never more be destined to sit there together.”
Tattoo was done at Sacred Tattoos, Auckland, NZ (www.sacredtattooshop.com)
Quoted in the book Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in America. “MOMA historian Russell Lynes summed up the rhetorical dialogue: “You call that art!” the public says (not asks) and the Museum replies in ringing tones “Yes, we call that art!”
For the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.
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Angela Carter
(via grecianurn) |
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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| — | Anas Nin (via youthandboots) |
