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"That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability, or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are."
—Paulo Coelho

(Source: whimsicalele)

i now know that the next place i’m gonna live, i’m gonna want it to be my own place - no roommates, no one but me. because i like to have the option of walking around naked open to me. or allowing ppl to stay over without having to ask if it’s alright with someone else. ALL MINE!!!!!!!!!!!! it’ll happen. hopefully by next month. yeah?

i forgot about taylor swift!

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"I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other."
—The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

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looking for a sublet is actually going to drive me FUCKING crazy.

anna karina jean-luc godard love

THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW ANNA KARINA & JEAN-LUC GODARD FIRST “GOT TOGETHER”
Anna Karina: That happened while we were shooting the picture in Geneva. It was a strange love story from the beginning. I could see Jean-Luc was looking at me all the time, and I was looking at him too, all day long. We were like animals. One night we were at this dinner in Lausanne. My boyfriend, who was a painter, was there too. And suddenly I felt something under the table – it was Jean-Luc’s hand. He gave me a piece of paper and then left to drive back to Geneva. I went into another room to see what he’d written. It said, “I love you. Rendezvous at midnight at the Café de la Prez.” And then my boyfriend came into the room and demanded to see the piece of paper, and he took my arm and grabbed it and read it. He said, “You’re not going.” And I said, “I am.” And he said, “But you can’t do this to me.” I said, “But I’m in love too, so I’m going.” But he still didn’t believe me. We drove back to Geneva and I started to pack my tiny suitcase. He said, “Tell me you’re not going.” And I said, “I’ve been in love with him since I saw him the second time. And I can’t do anything about it.” It was like something electric. I walked there, and I remember my painter was running after me crying. I was, like, hypnotized – it never happened again to me in my life.
So I get to the Cafe de la Prez, and Jean-Luc was sitting there reading a paper, but I don’t think he was really reading it. I just stood there in front of him for what seemed like an hour but I guess was not more than thirty seconds. Suddenly he stopped reading and said,” Here you are. Shall we go?” So we went to his hotel. The next morning when I woke up he wasn’t there. I got very worried. I took a shower, and then he came back about an hour later with the dress I wore in the film - the white dress with flowers. And it was my size, perfect. It was like my wedding dress.
We carried on shooting the film, and, of course, my painter left. When the picture was finished, I went back to Paris with Jean-Luc, Michel Subor, who was the main actor, and Laszlo Szabo, who was also in the film, in Jean-Luc’s American car. We were all wearing dark glasses and we got stopped at the border – I guess they thought we were gangsters. When we arrived in Paris, Jean-Luc dropped the other two off and said to me, “Where are you going?” I said, “I have to stay with you. You’re the only person I have in the world now.” And he said, “Oh my God.”
Extract taken from an interview with Anna Karina conducted by Graham Fuller in Projections 13: Women Film-makers on Film-making, edited by Isabella Weibrecht, John Boorman and Walter Donohue (Faber & Faber, 2004)
(via Focus Features)

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rosettes:

Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 1994

Trouser Detail, NihilismGray silk/wool
Photographed by Sølve Sundsbø for Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
“The inspiration behind the hair came from Victorian times when prostitutes would sell their hair locks, which were bought by people to give to their lovers. I used it as my signature label with locks of hair in Perspex. In the early collections, it was my own hair.”

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Seventeen-year-old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat and dances on wine bottles in June 1958. Her performance was based on a dream. She practiced for eight hours a day to do this.
Photo by Carlo Polito

Anything in life: "That means I have to put pants on."

omg so true though.

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i think when times are tough like they have been, i need to stop and really try to remember why i’m doing all of this. in the midst of counting on unreliable strangers to put a roof over my head and inconveniently getting food poisoning that resulted in barfing my way from williamsburg to yonkers, i think i kind of forgot. i’m not looking forward to what’s coming my way cause i’m sure it’s only gonna get harder, but i guess that’s just gonna make the good even greater.

that, or i’ll kill myself.