in the mood for love

"I used to be like you" you literally did the same thing yet you claim you don't do it anymore. Go fuck yourself.

Because you can't have one thing or the other at once. I can't choose anymore, it's too late. Besides, I never wanted to choose. I'm a whore, you know. There's no remedy, I'll always be a whore. And I don't want to be anything else!

Maddalena – La Dolce Vita (1960)

Neptune offering gifts to Venice – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

I came across this painting while looking up something in Venetian history and it just spoke to me, hence why I'm posting it here. Maybe it's because I love personification in art and of course, Venice. Beautiful painting to depict the city's glory. Almost visited this summer along with Milan but that trip never happened unfortunately.

The tragedy in 1984 is that they do not actually kill the protagonist in the end but they kill him as an individual. And the final step to do so is not by destroying something directly related to himself but by destroying his feelings for another person. The final step to destroy a human being is to destroy their love.