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Grace Gown by Vivienne Westwood

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I dreamt last night of your teeth on my skin. 

Michael Cantin, from ‘Literary Sexts’

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Napoleon’s eyes in paintings

“Did you notice his clear gray eyes, which are so piercing that you can hardly bear his look?”

— Tsar Alexander I

“I have to admit, shivers went down my entire body. I will never forget the fiery eyes.”

— A monk who saw Napoleon in Lithuania in 1812

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Fallen Angel is an Academic Oil on Canvas Painting created by Alexandre Cabanel in 1847.

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“You have witchcraft in your lips.” - William Shakespeare, Henry V

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My stomach hurts from drinking too much coffee

But I protect myself, I surround myself with books, their silence does not demand anything, they exist , they are alive , they are for anyone to open, unlike us human being.

–Bo Carpelan, tr. by David McDuff , from "Urwind". Published c. 1993

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“And now I’m sad and I’m a mess.”  – Joji, Song: Will He

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1st of September

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Birth of Venus - Alexandre Cabanel, 1863, France

Alexandre Cabanel's other work: Nymphe et Satyr, 1860; The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, 1867; Fallen Angel, 1868; La Comtesse De Keller (marquise de Saint Yves d'Alveydre), 1873.

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Stańczyk (full name: Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk) - Jan Matejko, 1862.

The jester is the only person at a 1514 royal ball troubled by the news that the Russians have captured Smolensk.

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