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Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.
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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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