Claude Monet (1840-1926), Giverny, Le Printemps (Detail), 1900
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“In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.”
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda [via quidnunc]














