“A paranoiac is like a poet, born, not made. (Un paranoico como un poeta, nace, no se hace)”

Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)

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film director 1900–1983

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“A paranoiac is like a poet, born, not made. (Un paranoico como un poeta, nace, no se hace)”

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