antiquity

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I am dying, Egypt, dying...

Mark Antony

Image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Heart of Stone VI

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If you are not too long,

I will wait here for you all my life.

 

so said Oscar Wilde.

photograph by Clifford Coffin of Leslie Caron
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heart of stone V

Modesty is the citadel of Beauty.

Demades

the Orangery at Dunbarton Oaks, Georgetown, image from ARCHITECT DESIGN /click to read more

heart of stone II

i married beneath me- all women do.
Nancy Astor

image from World of Interiors

heart of stone I

The main female ambition is to please and to be loved although pleasure and love don’t last more than ten, fifteen years. Women don’t think about improving their spirit as well as their appearance, they forget that a good soul lasts forever and it is a nice company in the forthcoming years.

madame de pompadour

sculpture of Madame de Pompadour in the Paris garden of Pauline de Rothschild