What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
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Inexpressible LoveTo know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for nothing..
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Very often (too often in my view) I was aware of being photographed. So, from the moment I feel I am in the camera's eye, everything changes I begin to pose, I immediately create a different body, I change even before the image.
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