| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 46559 |
| QUOTATION: | Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926), German poet. Quoted in Rilke, Letters on Cézanne, foreword (1952, trans. 1985).
Remarking on Cézannes picture of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire to Count Harry Kessler. |
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