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Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly make… - Eugène Delacroix
" "Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
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About Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix (April 26 1798 – August 13 1863) was a French painter, one of the leading artists of Romanticism in Europe of the nineteenth century.
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix
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Eugene Delacroix
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Ferdinand-Eugène-Victor Delacroix
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Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix
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..The movement and the rustle of the branches [in the forest, while losing his attention for chasing] delights me. The clouds float past and I lift my head to follow their flight, or think about some madrigal, when a slight sound, which has been going on for a little while, rouses me slowly from my dream.; at least I turn my head and see, to my grief, a little white scut just disappearing into the thicket...
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