Perfume Began In Mesopotamia As Incense Offered To The Gods To Sweeten The Smell Of Animal Flesh Burned

Salvador Dali – Ménagère (Cutlery Set) 1957

Six pieces (silver-gilt) comprising of two forks, two knives and two enameled spoons.

I want to be famous, doing what? Everything! I will never be a poet, or a philosopher, or a scholar. I can only be a singer or painter. I want to be in vogue; that is the principal thing. Don’t shrug your shoulders, strict people, don’t criticize me with an affected indifference. You are just the same at the bottom. You are careful not to let it show. But that doesn’t keep you from finding, deep in yourselves, that I tell the truth. Vanity! Vanity! Vanity! The beginning and the end of everything, and the sole and eternal cause of everything. Whatever is not produced by vanity is born from our passions. Passions and vanity are the only masters of the world.

Marie Bashkirtseff, 5th April 1876 (via early20thcenturynerd)

dreamy

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why must a film be “viewed”? is it not enough to see select homoerotic scenes in gif form, low quality?

Carl Holsøe (1863-1935) 

A Lady reading Music in an Interior