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

Jean Cocteau

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
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
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
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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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
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
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
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible

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