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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

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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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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

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