It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
JEAN COCTEAUPicasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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 ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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