The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
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