The achievements of the ancient Indians in the field of philosophy are but very imperfectly known to the world at large, and it is unfortunate that the condition is no better even in India. There is a small body of Hindu scholars and ascetics living a retired life in solitude, who are well acquainted with the subject, but they do…

— Surendranath Dasgupta
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MY Dearest, Best Friends:
You do not know with what affection this, my first letter from my new home, is written. A home where, praise God, there is peace and love everywhere, and we are all happy with and through one another.
I regret so deeply that only through the press of circumstances I have not been able to write to you before. Forgive me.

— Raden Adjeng Kartini
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whats left, we embrace.

#sea #ocean #ruins #lostplaces #lostplace #urlaub #vacation #summer #holiday #sommer #meer #mare #photo #photography #fotografie #nikon #italy #italiano #south #swimming #isolation #moody #melancholy #oldtimes

Oh! when shall the grave hide for ever my sorrow?
Oh! when shall my soul wing her flight from this clay?
The present is hell! and the coming to-morrow
But brings, with new torture, the curse of to-day.

— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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morbido fascination

by #FLOWERFACE

What a pure morning,
with a touch of melancholy,
and the wisdom to die some day
The sweet sound of a mermaid
Digging in the past
Longing to the future
Starving right now

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Le mal du pays. — Un peu de stratégie. — Désespoir d’Omar. — Derniers projets. — L’intérieur du harem. — La sultane Hézia. — Deux exécutions. — Baba reparaît. — Dans la tour du Seraskier. — Mélancolie. — La petite étoile s’éteint. — Solde de captivité. — Les étonnements d’Hilarion. — Le double courant du Bosphore. — Un sauvetage inutile.

— L’invasion noire 3
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It feels like this week I am #grieving for many things lost. I've never felt like this before unless I was actually grieving a death. But now it seems I am processing things that should have been processed a long, long time ago. So I'm letting it happen. I'm crying my eyes out and letting it all go, perhaps I need to deal with this stuff built up in my body and mind for so long, before I can physically start to #heal as well.

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