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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Jean Cocteau

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Deep Difference History Illusion Myth Mythology Perspective Reality Truth
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Death Greatness Media Myself News Pieces Sad Yourself
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Imitation Ourselves Public
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Forever God Infinity Mystery Ourselves
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

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