Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
JEAN COCTEAUYou’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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