Ana Paula Alvarez

photographer

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Almost everything in this image from the Hubble telescope is a galaxy, each containing billions of stars.

In a dark patch of sky the size of a grain of sand at arm's length Hubble found an estimated 10,000 galaxies, extending back to a few hundred million years of the big bang.

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deklo: have to thank tumblr for romanticizing absolutely everything. i’ll be washing dishes and peeling oranges thinking of love languages its insane https://t.co/NEKP8jDfjS

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📷 facinaoris: The Burning Ones, Salma Deera https://t.co/oEfUewZbO8

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thoughtkick: “I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.” — Unknown https://t.co/BcwPPkStfw

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memoryslandscape: “This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future;” — Margaret Atwood, from “Shapechangers In Winter,” Morning in... https://t.co/EuvoWjkOPM

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angelsinthewater: “after we have caught love we start eating it to the bone.” — The Hunger Moon; A key to common lethal fungi by Marge Piercy https://t.co/Akjpj2wld5

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eflor: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid https://t.co/agaNFWwZj0

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mental–healthawareness: Remember that even good changes can make us feel depressed, because, as creatures of habit, we’re resistant to change. That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t the right choice. https://t.co/QmbPtE7xFK

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cruellheaven: “Nothing but the sound of rain” — Joanna Klink, from Night On Land in “Excerpts From A Secret Prophecy” (via adrasteiax) https://t.co/PNPUHI8WXp

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lachantefleurie: ““Desire is about vanishing. You dream a bowl of cherries and next day receive a letter written in red juice.”” — – Anne Carson, in Norma Jeane Baker of Troy https://t.co/MFljApkmCH

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📷 salemwitchtrials: Claritas, Denise Levertov  [ID: Sun / light. Light / light light light.] https://t.co/2eWTMXTVx4

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soracities: “Maybe the rain is “sweet” because it falls through so much of the world.” — Ocean Vuong, from “Notebook Fragments”, Night Sky With Exit Wounds https://t.co/bymMWKrmgv

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📷 sempiterial: Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Night in a Commune” https://t.co/JcfnVSlVxh

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farmgf: Linda Pastan, The Months https://t.co/ZprxIbOiwk

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memoryslandscape: “Like summer thunderstorms you put the ecstasy back in my sadness.” — Molly Kirschner, from “Love Poem #17,” Notes for Further Research (Anaphora Literary Press, 2017) https://t.co/4WXGBkqtsC

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📷 flowerytale: Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry, September 1st 1938. https://t.co/akxmsRuIeS

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soracities: “I felt and saw the night outside deep within me. Wind and wetness, autumn, bitter smell of foliage, scattered leaves of the elm tree.” — Hermann Hesse, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse (trans. Jack Zipes) https://t.co/MGtYdLJIe8

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📷 soracities: Emily Dickinson, ‘The name–of it–is Autumn’ (Poem 656), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson [Text ID: “The name–of it–is “Autumn”– the hue–of it–is Blood–”] https://t.co/4kXinYr7rv

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violentwavesofemotion: “I learned to know the love of bare November days,” — Robert Frost, from The Complete Poems; “My November Guest,” (via violentwavesofemotion) https://t.co/DqWnzaoWFg

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nefhertari: “It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.” — L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (via litverve) https://t.co/GNqiaVmBDq