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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

Paul Cezanne

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Paul Cezanne
Age: 67 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 19
Died: 1906
Died: October 23
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
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Cézanne
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P. Sezanas
Sai-shang
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Sensations
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Implacable
Entwined

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