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The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is an autobiography by the internationally renowned artist Salvador Dalí published in 1942 by Dial Press. The book was written in French and translated into English by Haakon Chevalier. It covers his family history, his early life, and his early work up through the 1930s, concluding just after Dalí's return to Catholicism and just before the global outbreak of the Second World War. The book is over 400 pages long and contains numerous detailed illustrations. It has attracted both editorial praise as well as criticism, notably from George Orwell.


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“What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.”

In The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí - first publication in 1942
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1941 - 1950
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

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