PROSPER MÉRIMÉE

 "Todos los rasgos estaban levemente contraídos: los ojos eran algo oblicuos, la boca parecía un tanto levantada en los extremos y las narices un poco henchidas. Desdén, ironía, crueldad, todo esto sugería aquella cara, que, no obstante, era de increíble belleza. La verdad es que, cuanto más se contemplaba aquella admirable estatua, tanto más se experimentaba el penoso sentimiento de que una hermosura tan maravillosa pudiera aliarse con la ausencia de toda sensibilidad"

Prosper Mérimée

"All the features were slightly contracted, the eyes were slightly oblique, the mouth was slightly raised at the ends and the nose a little swollen. Disdain, irony, cruelty, all this suggested that face, which, however, it was amazing beauty. the truth is, the more you watched that wonderful statue, the more experienced the painful feeling that a wonderful beauty could ally with the absence of feeling "

Prosper Mérimée