"Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests."

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One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

— Claude Monet