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Summerwunne - Estampie 

Sô wol dir, summerwunne! daz vogelsanc ist geswunden, als ist der linden ir loup. jârlanc troubent mir ouch mîniu wól stênden ougen.
Farewell summer bliss! The birdsong has disappeared, as have the linden tree's leaves. With the waning year my eyes too are dimming.
#summerwunne#estampie#music
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The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth’s part in life, and a day moth’s at that, appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying his meagre opportunities to the full, pathetic. He flew vigorously to one corner of his compartment, and, after waiting there a second, flew across to the other. What remained for him but to fly to a third corner and then to a fourth? That was all he could do, in spite of the size of the downs, the width of the sky, the far–off smoke of houses, and the romantic voice, now and then, of a steamer out at sea. What he could do he did. Watching him, it seemed as if a fibre, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body. As often as he crossed the pane, I could fancy that a thread of vital light became visible. He was little or nothing but life.

from The death of the moth - Virginia Woolf

#The death of the moth#Virginia Woolf
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bijouxdelame

The Fall (2006)

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birdonwing

So I was rewatching this and of course it turns into a big sobfest. I love this movie so much (both the stunning visuals and the story).

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Sea at Low Tide It has frittered itself away in rockpools, turned itself into a mist, a sandshine, and lost its voice. Whatever it had to say it swallows. There is only the hushed gulp, while a bird flies round with a looping whistle like someone trying to find its wavelength.

Matthew Francis, from Literary Imagination (Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2012)

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acheiropoietos

Miniature of the Annunciation, 12th century MS 2877, Gospel, Armenian 

Currently housed in the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan, Armenia