What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUMan 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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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 prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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