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Arthur Dampier May (British, 1857-1916) A study of a woman with one hand held to her breast, 1918

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HERKYNA, (or Hercyna) was the Naiad Nymph of the stream Herkyna near Lebadeia in Boiotia (central Greece). She was a childhood companion of Persephone, and a goddess of the chthonian shrine of Trophonios.

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Beneath the Cenote - Quintana Roo, México - Author: StevieFilmShots

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Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898, British) ~ Cupid and Psyche, 1870

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“...you mustn’t be frightened if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Marie-Antoinette à la Rose detail, 1793

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Statue of Queen Arsinoe II identified as the goddess Isis. Ptolemaic Period (305-330 BC)

Museum of Antiquities Alejandrina Library

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Bert Hardy. Couple kissing at the Astoria Ballroom in Nottingham. 1952.

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Viktor Schramm (Romanian, 1865-1929)

Preparing for the Ball