I have had a hundred and fifty generous impulses to draw closer to her, but there it stopped, and I find my excuse in the sorrows that weigh me down.
The studio is run by another former model, Colorossi.
Cerny is sitting for me — and so badly! She is not as stupid as one might think, but… In short she is strange; she is missing something upstairs.
It gives her an artistic aura — universal, magnificent — that her talent alone could never have given her.
So the princess and her husband are delighted. But there is no danger of Bojidar ever doing anything reckless. He is in the process of passing his...
No, truly, there is a lack of intelligence all around me. Not to mention that I am genuinely more careful than people imagine — only it is so...
Maman arrived this morning and found me at the studio in the grip of a fever I was unable to conceal — for having been horribly cold until one...
Do not be credulous, be mistrustful — but when someone tells you some infamy about a person who is not even your friend, strike back at the coward,...
I, when I used to hear women of society spoken ill of — when I heard it said they were not ==respectable==, they should not be received, they were...
Unfortunately I could not hear everything from so far away, and besides I was very tired. But so much has been said about this woman that I cannot...
But even the little beaches around Nice, Èze, Beaulieu and so on… Here one is vexed by a jumble of little rocks thrown down pell-mell; it has the...
There are races today, but I believe no carriage could be had. My aunt and Maman very much want to stay here a long time because the weather is...
We stayed only a little while — not knowing a single soul; all one could do was show oneself, and I did, and I think I was pretty and well dressed....
My mothers are in black; I in a white dress, a hat lined with black velvet and covered in white feathers, black gloves and shoes. For we are still in...
After dinner we go back to the drawing room; I read there for the sake of composure — but we really look too foolish in the face of all these people...
against society. In the end they may be honourable people.
In the daytime on the beach it is perfectly fine — but in the evenings! I was going to put on a Louis XV dress in embroidered muslin with a...
All this in the company of the Karaouleffs and an Englishman, and then the little Russian, very young, very young. Marseille, very ==well-bred==,...
The King, the Queen, the Infantas attended the fight — more than fourteen thousand spectators. And this is every Sunday.
Old Pollack came to join us there. Soria was supposed to come, but as he is a Jew he fasted — yesterday was Yom Kippur — and it made him ill. He is...
In the evening he takes us to the theatre — carriage, box, everything very fine. I am looking extremely pretty in a mantilla. That name Escobar had...
The other day, to see his studies, we went to his mother's house; and today his father and sister came to us — Maman was leaving, and their presence...
Old Soldatenkoff asked me whether I sold my work, and I had the stupidity to say no — but I hope to see him again and he may buy something from me in...
Instead of writing pretty things about Spain, I… it is pitiable.
One's head is dizzy — it seems as though something has broken inside you; one could weep at nothing, and with that an indifference resembling...
But do not think, naïve readers, that I am spiriting Toledo away from you — never!
I saw as in a dream that immense block of granite, dark, sad, grandiose. Well, I find it superb — that majestic melancholy is a charm. The palace...
legendary stairways — and masses of fabrics, tapestries, and embroideries enough to drive one mad.
But after all, he travelled with artists, friends, witty people… Man entirely alone is a very incomplete creature — to be alone to admire some...
But this morning I spent two hours in Córdoba — just time enough to cast a glance at the city, which is ravishing… in its fashion — in short I adore...
In short, I am wasting a great deal of time here.
Seville is all white, all white; the streets are narrow, carriages cannot pass through most of them. And with all that, it is not as picturesque as...
During the three hours I spent in Córdoba I had the impression of an artistic city — that is, I would have worked there with perfect spirit. As for...
The prisoners enjoy a charming liberty — the courtyard resembles a market, the doors do not appear to close very well, and in short this prison does...
Granada seen from the tower is of an admirable, complete beauty. The snow-covered mountains, the gigantic trees, the exquisite plants and flowers,...
I am mad about these gypsy types. They have poses, movements, attitudes of such natural and strange grace. Marvellous paintings could be made there.
The women in their everyday printed-cotton dresses, which I shall buy, the real thing, in Madrid. And I have almost all the fabrics needed; it...
Hearing me speak of nothing else and seeing my impatience to return to Madrid, it is perfectly natural, is it not, that my aunt — all dressed up —...
So I did thirty-six things — bought myself a hat, saw Doucet, then gathering all my studies I went to Tony's to Julian's.
The lawsuit is over, won. It seems impossible — it has dragged on so long — and yet there it is. We have just received Maman's telegram while Mme de...
Now… Shall I speak to you of… Yes, of course. He seemed to me young, and destined to last a long time yet… You know that is my preoccupation. Chamber...
Such is the news. There is also some progress in Amélie's romantic affairs — Julian is softening, and everything leads one to hope that he will in...
I am somewhat better today — but it is all the same, for someone who is being treated by the greatest physicians in the world! And for so long! For...
On the first floor of 36, rue Vivienne there is a club, and it is in one of its salons that the studies and project for the panorama of Lourdes by...
It is impossible to imagine how despairing this exile to the Midi is for me. It seems as though everything is going to be over. I, who had come back...