Aesthetic: Pride and Prejudice
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
literature aesthetics, featuring anna karenina
“He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world that could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she.”
pride and prejudice by jane austen, 1813.
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.“
favorite literary classics ◆ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ◆ 1847
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
the women of the great gatsby, featuring makeup advertisements of the 1920s.
“I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.“
classic lit moodboards- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
↳It was dark now, and as we dipped under a little bridge I put my arm around Jordan’s golden shoulder and drew her toward me and asked her to dinner. Suddenly I wasn’t thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal skepticism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm. A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”
[ LITERATURE EDITORIAL SERIES ] Dante’s The Inferno
↳ Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
literature posters; 1984 by george orwell