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I can not get over everything you did for me in that first day [for his support to hang her works on the 7th Impressionist exhibition, Spring 1882], it seems to me that you are working yourself to death, and all on my account. This touches me deeply and vexes me at the same time.

— 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.

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.

..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.

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