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You Might Be a Late Bloomer - The Atlantic

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The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 32:35 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . P aul Cézanne always knew he wanted to be an artist. His father compelled him to enter law school, but after two desultory years he withdrew. In 1861, at the age of 22, he went to Paris to pursue his artistic dreams but was rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts, struggled as a painter, and retreated back to his hometown in the south of France, where he worked as a clerk in his father’s bank. He returned to Paris the next year and was turned down again by the École. His pai

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