We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
— Carson McCullers (via keepah-da-change)

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me
— Oscar Wilde (via sisterwolf)

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Marie Antoinette’s Farmhouse

Marie Antoinette’s Farmhouse

seahorsesandpearls:

Paris Exposition: Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1900.

seahorsesandpearls:

Paris Exposition: Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1900.

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