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

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
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People
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
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
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
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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom

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