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"The coming together of Cézanne and Pissarro - their common cause, their peaceful coexistence, their rivalry, their contrariety - is a mystery. For me it is the deepest mystery of the nineteenth century; and I cannot escape the feeling that if we could unravel it we would have in our hands the key to French painting, in much the same way as the relation of Plato to Socrates, for example, still seems the key to the enigma called 'philosophy'."