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“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” (via niimph)

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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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