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"Circe" by Beatrice Offor (1911).

Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727-1788)

Poster for my college’s upcoming production of Hamlet! :^)

Lucretia, 1664 (detail) Rembrandt.

Giveaway Contest: To celebrate 2020, we’re giving away twenty paperback classics featuring Truman Capote, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Agatha Christie, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on February 29, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

torment your spouse with violin music

i heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theater, conferring on all who sat there, perfect absolution. god was singing through this little man to all the world, unstoppable, making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar.

amadeus, nineteen-eight four — dir. miloš forman.

Judith - Charles Landelle

1887

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Robin Isely, Hans Memling - Man of Sorrows c.  1480.

sub·lime

/səˈblīm/

adjective  of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe. 

I honestly love Carmina Burana. It’s either “Oh, Mighty Fate! Who will love me? Do not let me die!” or “he’s drinking, she’s drinking, everybody’s drinking, also I have an erection” with nothing in between.

Romanticize your life. Make it into a movie that you’ve always dreamed of. Don’t let no one stop you from making your life enjoyable, not even yourself. Make it beautiful, make it worth living.

Cinematography in Penny Dreadful 1x02, Seance