I can resist everything except temptation.

"Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone...."

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:29:37 +0200

“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations (via portionsofeternity)

senfonikankara: Fazıl Say | Ses Wow!!!! I’m stunned!...

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:12:28 +0200

senfonikankara:

Fazıl Say | Ses

Wow!!!! I’m stunned! Look at his face! He almost seems to suffer…. And is the piano really the only instrument the sound does come from? It sounds so complex. Wow!

ancient-serpent: I’m going on holiday soon (for my birthday)...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:39:51 +0200

ancient-serpent:

I’m going on holiday soon (for my birthday) & I think I’ve chosen the perfect place…

Indeed, we have made the perfect choice!

"I’ve always been a very good judge of people. That’s why I like so few of them."

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:08:24 +0200

“I’ve always been a very good judge of people. That’s why I like so few of them.”

- Donna Van Lier (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

ren-one: “Ra, who is Horus of the Horizons.”

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:04:49 +0200

ren-one:

“Ra, who is Horus of the Horizons.”

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Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:13 +0200

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Wed, 22 May 2013 18:57:44 +0200

gilbertnorrell: “There are many men in London, you know,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:35:20 +0200

gilbertnorrell:

“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger’s Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.”

The Greek Interpreter, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

oldroze: Hendrick Frans VERBRUGGEN (Flemish sculptor (b. 1654,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:21:27 +0200

oldroze:

Hendrick Frans VERBRUGGEN (Flemish sculptor (b. 1654, Antwerpen, d. 1724, Antwerpen)

Adam and Eve Banished from Paradise (detail of the pulpit)
1695-99
Gilded oak
Cathedral of Ste Gudule, Brussels

hintersatz: Michio Miyagi’s “Haru no Umi”.

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:33:37 +0200

hintersatz:

Michio Miyagi’s “Haru no Umi”.

denisforkas: Stradanus - Illustration for Dante’s Inferno,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:03:59 +0200

denisforkas:

Stradanus - Illustration for Dante’s Inferno, Canto 31. 1587

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:08:40 +0200

Albrecht Dürer - Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:24:18 +0200

Albrecht Dürer - Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher, 1526

Gemäldegalerie in Berlin

It’s such a remarkable painting. If you’re standing really close to observe it you can see reflections of windows in the eyes.

"I think that my men’s clothing looks as good on women as my women’s clothing … and more and more..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:01:16 +0200

“I think that my men’s clothing looks as good on women as my women’s clothing … and more and more women are buying men’s clothes. It’s happening everywhere, and not just my clothing. When I started designing, I wanted to make men’s clothes for women. But there were no buyers for it. Now there are. I always wonder who decided that there should be a difference in the clothes of men and women. Perhaps men have decided this.”

- Yohji Yamamoto (via funeral)

westeastsouthnorth: Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:58:43 +0200

westeastsouthnorth:

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

"It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love,..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:03:45 +0200

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

- Stephen Fry (via kaiagathos)

"Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:30:19 +0200

“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”

- Stephen Fry (via existenti-al)

tookmyskull: fuckyeahvictorians: steampunktendencies: The...

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:26:14 +0200

Steampunk Tendencies | The Gentleman's Surprise Chair

Steampunk Tendencies | The Gentleman's Surprise Chair

Steampunk Tendencies | The Gentleman's Surprise Chair

Steampunk Tendencies | The Gentleman's Surprise Chair

tookmyskull:

fuckyeahvictorians:

steampunktendencies:

The Gentleman’s Surprise Chair (Circa 1880)

Now we know where he kept his nudie pix…busted

odditiesoflife: The Real Abandoned Overlook Hotel Unlike the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:22:45 +0200

odditiesoflife:

The Real Abandoned Overlook Hotel

Unlike the fictional Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, this hotel is really named the Overlook. The abandoned hotel is located in the small, wine growing town of Bernkastel-Kues in Germany. Other than it has been unoccupied for about 13 years, there is no information as to why the hotel was closed. All of the furniture remains and it looks as if everyone there simply left. There are rumors that the hotel is haunted. According to urban explorers who frequent the spooky site, cameras malfunction, sounds can be heard throughout the premises and items seem to move around the hotel by themselves.

As an urban explorer myself I’d love to go there and I might. At least it’s in my country.

fuckyeahneedlework: ornaments-of-the-world: Antique Ottoman...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:08:21 +0200

fuckyeahneedlework:

ornaments-of-the-world:

Antique Ottoman gold thread densely embroidered large panel on burgundy velvet

Impressive Ottoman period high quality embroidery spread or table cloth done in gold strip dival work with couched threads on burgundy velvet. Highly decorative European style design elements in floral decorative European style design elements in floral sprays and arabesques in four corners with central medallion. Heavy velvet ground and backed in burgundy cotton. In excellent overall antique condition with occasional loose threads to embroidery and some variation of color to the ground velvet. Measures 79” by 61”.

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GORGEOUS

I love antique goldwork.