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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

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
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
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
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
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Death Greatness Media Myself News Pieces Sad Yourself
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Difficult Earth Live Serious
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
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
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
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
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

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