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QUOTATION:The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
ATTRIBUTION:Salvador Dali (1904–1989), Spanish painter. Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, preface, ed. Pierre Cabanne (1968, trans. 1971).
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