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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Jean Cocteau

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
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
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.
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Character Dreams Friendship Habit Live Regret Stranger Surprise
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
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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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet

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