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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
Eugene Delacroix
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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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Draftsperson
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Charenton-Républicain
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God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.
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