"Why, she reflected, should there be this perpetual disparity between the thought and the action, between the life of solitude and the life of society, this astonishing precipice on one side of which the soul was active and in broad daylight, on the other side of which it was contemplative and dark as night?
— Virginia Woolf, Night And Day
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Antonio Stradivari, Violin, Maple, spruce, ebony, 1693
This Antonio Stradivari violin is the only one in existence that has been restored to its original Baroque form. Before modification to produce a louder, more brilliant tone and to extend the left-hand technique to higher positions, Baroque violins had gut strings, a short fingerboard, and a neck angled back only slightly from the body. Today, few fine violins show these original features.
This undated file photo provided by Sotheby's shows the staircase at Brooke Astor's Westchester estate, Holly Hill, in Briarcliff Manor, New York.AP/SOTHEBY'S
Fred Astaire by Ralph Crane, c. 1958
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KATE WINSLET
I'm incredibly passionate about my life, I'm absolutely unable to hide any emotion. If I wrote a book, I’d have to call it ‘P is for Passion’. I don’t go in for anything halfway. My feelings about things are instant, on the spot. And my heart is always, always on my sleeve.
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Evgenia Obraztsova, Bolshoi Ballet
A view of the drawing room in Mrs. Astor's New York City apartment, including a selection of Old Master drawings and Chinese export porcelain.
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New York Penthouse, Sotheby’s International Realty.
In the auction room at Christie’s New York, Courtesy Christie’s Auction House.
Portrait of a Young Woman (detail), Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy, 1632
Alexander McQueen Pre-Fall 2011
"Fall in love with
the sound of her
voice before
anything else;
it will be the first
thing you will lose
when she is
gone."
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