Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
Jean Cocteau
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
poets
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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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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Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself
self-esteem public
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things
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There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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The knack is art.
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Art is science made clear.
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