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NUMBER:46559
QUOTATION:Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
ATTRIBUTION:Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), German poet. Quoted in Rilke, Letters on Cézanne, foreword (1952, trans. 1985).

Remarking on Cézanne’s picture of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire to Count Harry Kessler.
 
 
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