"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy...The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural & wonderful existence. It is nothing but love & emotion; it is the Living Infinite."

-Jules Verne
🎨 Max Jensen

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Adrienne Segur (1901-1981) was a children’s book Here is an example of her from The Golden Bird & Other Stories (1950s).

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(1/2) Charles Baudelaire’s ‘L'Héautontimorouménos’, (‘The Self-Tormenter’) plays on themes of self-vampirism:

‘Je suis de mon coeur le vampire,
— Un de ces grands abandonnés
Au rire éternel condamnés
Et qui ne peuvent plus sourire!’

In English translation:

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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

André Gide
La Porte étroite


Renoir

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"You alone will have the stars as no one else has them. In one of the stars I shall live. In one of them I shall laugh. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night, only you will have stars that can laugh."
El Principito

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"The flesh is sad, alas! – and I’ve read all the books.
Let’s go! Far off. Let’s go! I sense
That the birds, intoxicated, fly
Deep into unknown spume and sky!" (Stéphane Mallarmé "Sea Breeze")

🎨 Tissot (c 1878)

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An example of 19th century caricature art
Achille Lemot (1846-1909) — Gustave Flaubert Dissecting Madame Bovary (illustration from “The Parody'', 1869)

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“Who the hell are you?” I gawk at the gnome.

His red-pointy hat twitches and his beady dark eyes
stare unblinking.

🔗 https://t.co/fmhZ92oCCg



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Silver as edgy bookworm from DMC5

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Colored Shiina Hiyori from Year 2 Volume 7 by me ~

My little bookworm 🪱

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I wasn't able to draw for myself for my birthday so now I gotta make it up by drawing Lex my beloved highlighter green bookworm úwù

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Day 7: Honor Student

Fatima loves to learn. She wants to know everything about everything, and finds unsolved problems as fun challenges.

Traits: Genius, Bookworm

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The Bed-Time Book, by Helen Hay Whitney, 1907. by Jessie Willcox Smith, one of America’s most popular & prolific children’s

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- "From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light..."
- The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

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"The sun shines there no brighter than a star, but the beings need no light. They have other subtler senses and put no windows in their great houses and temples. Light even hurts and hampers and confuses them..."
~ The Whisperer In Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft

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Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place.

– Emily Dickinson, “Ghosts”


🖼 John Constable

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Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare & radiant maiden…”

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
–Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.
🖼Edmund Dulac

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And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine.
–John Steinbeck, East of Eden.

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Ramona my beloved Half-Elf. Teacher turned adventurer and kind hearted bookworm. Also is one of the most dangerous people to piss off if you somehow manage.

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