Archive for January 5th, 2007
a woman and her masks
burfitt 2006 (a swede based in paris)
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virgina oldoini: napoleon bonaparte’s mistress
“Virginia spent her declining years in an apartment on the Place Vendôme, where she had the rooms decorated in funereal black, the blinds kept drawn, and mirrors banished — apparently so she would not have to confront her advancing age and loss of beauty. She would only leave the apartment at night.”
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oscar wilde: do you mind if i smoke?
sarah bernhardt: i don’t care if you burn.
