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To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.
Robert Bresson
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Robert Bresson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1901
Born: September 25
Died: 1999
Died: December 18
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Puy-de-Dome
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Unbalance so as to re-balance.
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