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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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