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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing everything goes through us.

Eugene Delacroix

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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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