Virginia Postrel
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
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It has long been an axiom of mine...An intellectual is a man who takes more words...One can acquire everything in solitude...I don't design clothes, I design dreams...I don't know whether I have ideas all the time...Probably the worst time in a person's life...
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