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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Jean Cocteau

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Creativity Inspirational Motivational World Yourself
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art Artist Discussion Plant Talk Voice
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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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Death Expression Life Love Oneself Training
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

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