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22.12.2010

Self-portrait (1953)
I have had a dream last night. I saw Valentin Massov
He was 16. He was young and impetuous. 
"You'll be famous soon," I said him.  
I do not know how this is possible.  
I saw him such as he had been a long ago.  
I knew it was true and that he was such as I saw him in my slumber
A boy with soul of child. You have lived a hard life but you have not sold your soul. 
My dream was reality and I was shocked.

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