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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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