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Quotation by Henry Brooks Adams
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Democracy Library of America (1983)"Eccentricity" The Education of Henry Adams, Houghton Mifflin (1918)Esther Library of America (1983)Esther Dudley in Esther Library of America (1983)George Strong in Esther Library of America (1983)Related Subjects
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The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.
Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. Letter, October 16, 1890, to John Hay. Henry B. Adams and His Friends, p. 199, ed. Harold Dean Cater.
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