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Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

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Paula Modersohn-Becker
Age: 31 †
Born: 1876
Born: February 8
Died: 1907
Died: November 20
Artist
Drawer
Painter
Printmaker
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Paula Modersohn-Becker (pseudonym)
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People
Greater
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Speak
Enormity
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Louder
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Supposed
Feel
Ought
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