Everything emotional in America becomes a mere show and make-believe. Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances … - Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Everything emotional in America becomes a mere show and make-believe. Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances on that, yet never do they invest [in] beauty nor take desperate chances on that. With money they try to buy beauty--after it has died--famishing--with grimace. Beauty is ever dead in America.

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About Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (12 July 1874 – 15 December 1927), sometimes also called Else von Freytag-von Loringhoven, was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States.

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Alternative Names: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoaven • Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven • Else Plötz • Else Hildegard Ploetz • Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven • Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven • Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (barones) • Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven • Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven • Baronessa Elsa • Else von Freytag-Loringhoven • Elsa von Freytag-LoringhoavenElsa von Freytag-Loringhoaven
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