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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

Emily Carr

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
Artist
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Painter
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M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
Klee Wyck
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Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!
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