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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
Agnes Varda
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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
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Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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