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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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