“Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said… was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?”

—  Willa Cather , book A Lost Lady

A Lost Lady (1923), Part I, Ch. 7

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American writer and novelist 1873–1947

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