Victoria, Princess Frederick William of Prussia, March 1859
Victoria was the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She is pictured here with her first child, future Emperor Wilhelm II, agd. about two months.
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Victorian photo. Look carefully for five children.
Beautiful light and shadow, pastoral landscape framed by interior architectural details.
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Everything Lao Tzu says is elusive. The temptation is to grasp at something tangible in the endlessly deceptive simpicity of the words. Even some of his finest scholarly translators focus on positive ethical or political values in the text, as if those were what’s important in it. And of course the religion called Taoism is full of gods, saints, miracles, prayers, rules, methods for securing riches, power, longevity, and so forth -- all the stuff that Lao Tzu says leads us away from the Way.
In passages such as this one, I think it is the profound modesty of the language that offers what so many people for so many centuries have found in this book: a pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part.
-Ursula K. LeGuin
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
an English Version
[”Alive On All Channels”]
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the quote is killing me... why is it there
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“Shake thyself from the dust; and arise” ⚰️
Photography by Iulia Iepure
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FIRST OFFICIAL VICTORIAN AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY PHOTO!👀👀👀❤❤❤
also: 'Aziraphale is still running bookshop, but he's also Maggie's landlord. She thinks he's the best because he lets her stay on and doesn't really mind if she doesn't make too much money.'
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(don’t repost photos)
05.02.24
new modules, new reading lists, and new multi vitamins are doing wonders for my motivation
unlike the professor who released our class details three days ago - our books should arrive on time but how much we can read by next week is…questionable
at least the storms are over. storm isha tik toks were right, battling the wind as a student with no car is really not it
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victorian maiden petite bouquet (2003)
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