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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
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
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Inspirational Motivational Public Yourself
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Creativity Inspirational Motivational World Yourself
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Character Dreams Friendship Habit Live Regret Stranger Surprise

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