I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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