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Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) French actress. In 1882 she married jacques Damala, a Greek actor possessed of limited talent and an oversized ego, from whom she later separated. Among her lovers were the Belgian Prince de Ligne, the artist Gustave Dore, numerous actors, and the picaresque French poet, dramatist, and novelist Jean Richepin (1849-1926). This turbulent and torturous affair began shortly after her husband left to serve in the army in North Africa.
You came -- you breathed your powerful breath over me and other people, my hesitations, and my whys and wherefores all crumbled. I drank on your lips the truth of love and I trembled in your arms, feeling the real, mad sensation of bodily rapture, and I saw in your eyes the absolute superiority of your being. I kiss each of your hairs, gently I calm your adored body and my lips ask a hundred thousand pardons and beg that your lips be given back to me.
written, GeminiSide
