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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. "
Jean Cocteau
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" Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. "
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" All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. "
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" One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. "
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" There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. "
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" The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. "
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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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" Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. "
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" I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. "
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" Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. "
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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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