Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
JEAN COCTEAUMystery 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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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