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"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."

"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."

"I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired."

"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."

"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."
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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."

"How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less."

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

"The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present."

"Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window."

"Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers."
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