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Josephine Baker quote: "Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if..."

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

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Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring. Mary Wortley