“I can't do it, I can't do it. I simply can't help turning a …”

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“I can't do it, I can't do it. I simply can't help turning a deaf ear to it and banging my head against the wall - yes - and all for an art that escapes me and will never know all the trouble I have taken on its behalf.”

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Title: Wikiquote: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Type: reference · Secondary source

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Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec

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