May 19, 2011
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broken beautiful

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”  ~Barbara Bloom.

dasdingansich via crashinglybeautiful: Thank you, Kirsten Liske for the submission.

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