I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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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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