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Old family photo from approximately 1980 featuring both of my grandparents wearing corduroy jackets.

Vincent van Gogh

Three Cicadas

1889

Sketch of a Cicada in a letter to Theo

1888

A striking black with white veined Nero Marquina marble fireplace. The jambs with tapering half round columns with moulded bases and capitals, surmounted by plain square side blocks. Victorian circa 1880.

‘ “I don’t repent shedding your blood!” he cried. “Beware, old man, beware of your dream, for I have my dream, too. I curse you, and disown you altogether.” ‘

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from  “The Brothers Karamazov”, originally published in 1880. (translated by Constance Garnett)

"[...]: his resolution did not give him peace."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from 'The Brothers Karamazov', first published in 1880. (as translated by Constance Garnett)

“Why do evil?” “So that everything might be destroyed. Ah, how nice it would be if everything were destroyed! [...]."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ’The Brothers Karamazov’, first published in 1880. (as translated by Constance Garnett)

"Brigandage was an access of heroic folly and desperate savagery, a desire for wreaking death and ruin, with no hope of final victory. "If the world had only one enormous heart, I'd tear it out," said Caruso, one of the most fearful brigand chiefs."

-Carlo Levi, as translated by Frances Frenaye, from ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’, first published in 1945.

Witch Hunt, Swinton's Book of Tales, 1880

Portrait of Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuev (1880) by Ivan Kramskoi. Hermitage Museum.