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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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