| History is that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. |
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- Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. |
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- Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. |
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- Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch. |
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- Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. |
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- Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. |
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- Dame Edith Sitwell |
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