"It is not inspiration; it is expiration."
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"The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today."
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"Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall."
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"Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique."
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"One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet."
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"The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car."
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"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."
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"The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing."
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"I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road."
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"Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths."
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"Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation"
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"Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known."
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"Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship."
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"Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes."
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"At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition."
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"The artist must know how far to go too far."
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"People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies."
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"Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind."
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"A little too much is just enough for me."
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"Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends."
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