"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
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"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
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"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
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"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
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"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality."
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"The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space."
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"If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius."
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"The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas."
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"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
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"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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"If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it."
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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
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"Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams."
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"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly."
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"Knowing how to look is a way of inventing."
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"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."
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"Let my enemies devour each other."
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"The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets"
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"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."
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