Book: In front of the mirror

Nothing is more convincing than your own example.

There are two jealous, one lying to yourself, your heart, the other lies in the other.

It will seem to you naive, even ridiculous, but secret hope, a silly hope that you love only me, never left me. Maybe because all my encounters with others is you.

The war ended five years ago, but for many it still continues. In a rare family has a history of losses, and they are not forgotten. Not uncommon still to meet a young woman in mourning for her husband, who died on the Marne or at Verdun. And how many people with disabilities, orphans, disadvantaged mothers! How often and during the holidays you see in the window, pale, mournful face peeking out from the folded curtains.

And I have a different attitude to death. If I knew your hours, I would not hurry - on the contrary, this knowledge would be for me one of the conditions of freedom.

Come, tell us about the hunt, about the bandits. They speak a corrupt Italian, I understand them, they didn't see me, but it did not interfere with our conversations.

The duty of friendship full sincerity I do not put myself always and in everything outright do not want to be, as each has its own "Holy of holies".

Between the two of us - friendship, but the past is still too close.

I'm afraid Your delicacy being held captive by Your sincerity.

The embankment is difficult to change because it is composed of sky, beach and the sea.

Other thoughts, as you know, harmful to the work. Especially when it is impossible to make them nepostoyannymi or even the main.

You trust your visual impressions and need to get rid of them, and the sooner the better. You can trust them, when we, for example, eating in order not to bring the spoon to your ear. Before painting it is necessary to look for visual impressions of the artist, not yours.

You write that my picture is on your Desk and I sometimes seem like a foreign, almost unfamiliar. This happens to me in the morning, in front of the mirror after a sleepless night.

Would only to a certain extent to be honest with everyone.