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I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because I know my worth.

— Berthe Morisot

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There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less picturesque than this combination.

My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.

..the glimpse of the dome of St. Paul's through the forest of yellow masts, the whole thing bathed in a golden haze.

His [ Edouard Manet's] paintings, as they always do, produce the impression of a wild or even a somewhat unripe fruit. I do not in the least dislike them.

..scumbled froth.. ..capable of indicating a mouth, eyes, a nose with a single stroke of the brush, the rest of the face modeled by the perfect accuracy of these indications.

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