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There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections
Douglas Sirk
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Douglas Sirk
Age: 89 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 26
Died: 1987
Died: January 14
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
Hans Detlef Sierck
Detlef Sierck
Reach
Darkly
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Removed
Wonderful
Inevitably
Everything
Glass
Real
Glasses
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Life
Touch
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