There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
JEAN COCTEAUAfter you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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