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graceless tarnished.

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The warmth of God's Mercy embraces a lost soul that, after a long wandering, returns home

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2 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

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Black silk fan with gold embroidery, 1880.

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the light snow gives off at night is one of my favorite things in the world

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Elements of the original garland from Empress Eugénie of the French’s ‘Feuilles de Groseillier’ parure, by Bapst (1855).

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The Empress Eugénie Tiara, by Gabriel Lemonnier (1853).

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belle epoque broche de diamantes 1910

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page 189 of “A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace” (1900)

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Anna Pavlova

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Waltz in A minor, Op. posth., Frédéric Chopin, Alexandre Tharaud

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Violet Morene photographed by Bassano, August 1910