“At night especially, she took one’s breath away with her beauty.”
— Virginia Woolf, from “To The Lighthouse,” originally publ. c. 1927
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“She was not merely a girl: she was a romantic novel.”
— Honore de Balzac, The Magic Skin (1831)
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𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒏 ✨
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“In the watery beams of the summer moon, Naked, dreaming,”
— Arthur Rimbaud, from Credo in Unam: III (tr. by Paul Schmidt)
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OSVALDO BIGNAMI
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“She was Princess Aurora, in lilac and rose-pink sequins and a dainty silver tiara. She sparkled like pink champagne.”
— M.A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood
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Marc Davis animation for Aurora, Sleeping Beauty (1959) [x]
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“So fragile, like a faded rose,”
— Andrée Sodenkamp, tr. by Renée Linkhorn & Judy Cochran, from “Chinese Statuette”
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Julie Andrews as Cinderella in 1957.
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J. L. Carr, from A Month in the Country
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