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If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

Frederic Chopin

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Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
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