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For you to love something, you must have seen and heard it for a long time, you idiots.

— Francis Picabia

Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots.

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Sign for a Dada festival (March 1920)

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