Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. (Akira Kurosawa)

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.

Akira Kurosawa

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