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A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious, a miser's glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy (1912–1989), U.S. author, critic. Venice Observed, ch. 2 (1956).

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