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My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Age: 88 †
Born: 1899
Born: September 23
Died: 1988
Died: April 17
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True strength is delicate.
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.
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If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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