The young man looked into Rembrandt’s eyes, the man peering
from the darkness of the painting.

The painter’s face human,
in the dark.

Rembrandt looked directly at the young man from the darkness,
from the silence.

Looking at Rembrandt, at the human being,
looking into his eyes, the young man stopped
to think.

He was in the darkness,
in the silence.

He was human.

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