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I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
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