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 COCTEAUWhen 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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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