je me noie dans la beauté

whenever you feel a stress-induced panic attack coming on, it's nice to surround yourself with beautiful calming things. For normal people this might be children or Enya. For vapid materialists such as myself, looking at apartment photos is akin to a mental bubblebath. And that's even better considering the fact that I share a closet-sized shower with a hoard of french strangers.

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Lots more after the jump

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leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her

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Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!—

The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword,

Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,

The glass of fashion and the mould of form,

Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!

And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,

That sucked the honey of his music vows,

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;

That unmatched form and feature of blown youth

Blasted with ecstasy. Oh, woe is me,

T' have seen what I have seen, see what I see!

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