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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

Paul Cezanne

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Paul Cezanne
Age: 67 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 19
Died: 1906
Died: October 23
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
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