Ryuichi Sakamoto as Capt. Yonoi In MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE (1983) Dir. Nagisa Oshima

“We all need discipline. You said yourself they’re like children. Without discipline, we should all behave like children“ Black Narcissus (1947) dir.  Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

“My lord Brother. Beautiful, magical Moscow exists no more. How could you consign to destruction the loveliest city in the world, a city that has taken hundreds of years to build?” - Napoleon to the czar, 1812

Ou φροντiς - a fanmix inspired by T. E. Lawrence “I haven’t got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.” (x)

pomegranates in still life (details)

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton at the Ambassador Hotel in New York, February 1956.

Hôtel de Ville de La Rochelle, France, photo by Arnaud Atreide

And I will wait for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)

Dolce & Gabbana Ready to Wear F/W 2013 and Mosaics.

ｓｔｒｅｅｔｓ ｉｎ ｆｌｏｒｅｎｃｅ. - { italian places meme.} “O animal grazioso e benigno che visitando vai per l’aere perso noi che tignemmo il mondo di sanguigno, se fosse amico il re de l’universo, noi pregheremmo lui de la tua pace, poi c’hai pietà del nostro mal perverso. Di quel che udire e che parlar vi piace, noi udiremo e parleremo a voi, mentre che ‘l vento, come fa, ci tace. Siede la terra dove nata fui su la marina dove ‘l Po discende per aver pace co’ seguaci sui. Amor, ch’al cor gentil ratto s’apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e ‘l modo ancor m’offende. Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona, mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, che, come vedi, ancor non m’abbandona. Amor condusse noi ad una morte: Caina attende chi a vita ci spense”. Inferno, canto V.

literature:  —  dorian gray  { the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde }

“Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able to do.”

“But suppose, Harry, I became haggard, and old, and wrinkled? What then?”