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What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

Edith Sitwell
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Edith Sitwell's Popular Quotes

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

- Edith Sitwell

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

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Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

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When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

- Edith Sitwell
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