What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
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