It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAUAfter the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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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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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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