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— Cesare Pavese"When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust."
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The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.
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