Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once." - Meaning and context.">
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As quoted in Audrey Hepburn : A Bio-bibliography (1994) by David Hofstede
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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once.

— Audrey Hepburn

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once." in the context of "As quoted in Audrey Hepburn : A Bio-bibliography (1994) by David Hofstede" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Audrey Hepburn

About Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognized as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.