One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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