"I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life."
"To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar."
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Source: Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc
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