To go out in a gondola at ...

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.
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 Peggy Guggenheim

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My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.
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 Peggy Guggenheim
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
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 Peggy Guggenheim
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
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 Peggy Guggenheim