Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888) details.
“(…) hunger, and the bitterness of deep snow.”
— Margaret Atwood, from The Singer Of Owls in “The Door”
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Robert Creeley
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
— Maya Angelou (via goodreadss)
“There are winter mornings when the cold without only adds to the warm within,”
— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Austin Dickinson wr. c. December 1852
“She is excessively tender-hearted.”
— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Orlando: A Biography,” c. 1928
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment.