I Wish I Could Tell You How Beautiful You Are. I Wish I Could Open Your Eyes To What I See. I Wish I

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude

soft marble sculptures appreciation post. 

— Sylvia Plath, from The Bell Jar

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

Today i’m moving, so I decided to leave a little present for the next tenants.

☆ funny tumblr

☆ funny reblogs

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The Midnight Planétarium by Van Cleef & Arpels

The movement of each planet is true to its genuine length of orbit: it will take Saturn over 29 years to make a complete circuit of the dial, Jupiter will take almost 12 years, Mars 687 days, Earth 365 days, Venus 224 days and Mercury 88 days.

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http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/97365597080/mothbug-so-a-new-species-of-snake

So a new species of snake (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) was recently discovered in southern Iran.

Its common name is the spider-tailed horned viper because its tail is literally a fucking spider. This salty motherfucker has a spider (well, a VERY convincing spider-shaped…

To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.