❝I suppose beauty first touched you and then the rest of the world. It is a certainty of mine; It first touched you, the world simply followed.❞

Virginia Woolf, from Selected Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)

paperdollhearts: Little animal figurines preparing to climb the everest mountain of books with me…

Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Isabella of Parma (detail), 1758

paperdollhearts: Heidi

spellbound-one: insects under glass

jaded-mandarin: Margarita de Austria-Estiria, Reina de España, 1606. Detail.

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