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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?
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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength it is the only strength I have.
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