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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
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Engraver
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Sculptor
Paris
France
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