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"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

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"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."

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"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."

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"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."
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