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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

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Paul Cezanne
Age: 67 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 19
Died: 1906
Died: October 23
Artist
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Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
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