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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

Jean Cocteau

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
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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
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
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
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
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
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
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand

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