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Aimée Crocker

And I'd Do It Again



Aimée Crocker was an heiress to gold and railroad fortunes and a daughter of Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818–1875), legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Justice of the California Supreme Court in 1865 and founder of the Crocker Art Museum. Her father was a brother of Charles Crocker, one of the 'big four' California railroad barons.

Aimée had a tale or two to tell. Aside from lavish parties, husbands and lovers, she travelled widely in the Far East. She tells of escaping headhunters in Borneo, poisoning in Hong Kong, and avoided murder by servants in Shanghai. While away, she was christened Princess Palaikalani Bliss of Heaven by King David Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii, and then Princess Galitzine when she wed her fifth and final husband, Prince Mstislav Galitzine. And I'd Do It Again is her autobiography.
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    I believe absolutely that living, in the completest sense of that word … discovering the full beauty of living and plunging ones self utterly into the human beings that swarm through this life … is a pure art. It is, I honestly think, the highest artistic accomplishment we can hope for. All the recognized arts … your paintings, your sculpture, your music, your books … all those things are only the symbols of that higher art: living.
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    to learn just how devilish a human being can be.

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