Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
JEAN COCTEAUContinue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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