Apr 19, 2020
...behind those closed curtains, where a ray of light indicates life and thought, adds the poetry of a dream to the poetry of reality.
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, from Diaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence; “The Crimson Curtain”
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...behind those closed curtains, where a ray of light indicates life and thought, adds the poetry of a dream to the poetry of reality.
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, from Diaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence; “The Crimson Curtain”
Frontispiece. La Dame Turque Jean Lorrain Paris: Libraire Nilsson, 1898.
Gustave Moreau
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