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Description:
sidewalk, stone building wall with large picture window, man in dark slacks, light-colored jacket and short hair stands before the glass with arms folded and looks into window; text above and below image

Label Text:
The text of this image is: THE MAN WHO INVENTED HIMSELF All the things that he experienced in his lifetime were his inventions. He invented the moon and trees and all tings visible and invisible. At this moment he is inventing me writing this and you reading this. Yes, you too are his invention. And yet if you told him this, he would not understand and deny it. Even though all things that he thought possible became possible. [a word scratched out] And in the end he would even invent his own death. He would never know that he had invented it all.

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