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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
Edith Sitwell
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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love Gone is the heart of Man.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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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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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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