Stevenson Act

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“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.”
—Claude Monet (1840–1926)