I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. —Bette Davis

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“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”
— Anthony Trollope

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Clothed Descending a Staircase No. 2…

In an homage to Marcel Duchamp’s masterpiece Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (itself inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs), Eliot Elisofon photographed Duchamp performing the act himself in 1952, and used multiple exposures to mimick the artist’s famous time-lapse-style p

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Bride Examining Her Wedding Gown in the Mirror (1930) photographed by Harry S. Hood

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كُلّما أدّبني الدَهرُ أرَاني نَقْصَ عَقلي، وإذَا مَا ازددْتُ عِلمًا زَادني عِلمًا بجَهلي*

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The Birth of Cool: Portrait of Ralph Burns, Edwin A. Finckel, George Handy, Neal Hefti, Johnny Richards, and Eddie Sauter, Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., ca. Mar. 1

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Cecilia Beaux - Ernesta, c. 1914, Oil on canvas

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إِنَّا نَطْمَعُ أَن يَغْفِرَ لَنَا رَبُّنَا خَطَايَانَا أَن كُنَّا أَوَّلَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

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