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" One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. "
Jean Cocteau
Man
Must
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" The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. "
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" Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. "
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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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" 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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" I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? "
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" Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. "
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" Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. "
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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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" Silence moves faster when it's going backward. "
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Backward
Silence
" I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. "
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Sad
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" The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "
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Invent
Listens
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" True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. "
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Habit
Seeing
" Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. "
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Film
Will
" All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. "
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Which
Mysterious
Music
" Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. "
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Unconscious
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" A film is a petrified fountain of thought. "
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Thought
Movies
" Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. "
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Teach
Death
Me
" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "
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Liar
Who
" I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. "
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Home
Enjoy
" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "
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Roses
Bother
Poet
" 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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Time
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" The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. "
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Masterpiece
Greatest
Literature
" There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. "
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Souls
Who
Wood