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"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
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"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
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"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
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"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
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"When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality."
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"Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality."
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"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"
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"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
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"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."
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"Buying is a profound pleasure."
Pleasure
"One is not born a genius one becomes a genius."
Achievement
"I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat."
Nature
"At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless."
Beauty
"Symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality."
Art
"My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy."
Philosophy
"Art is an attempt to integrate evil."
Art
"No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility."
Woman
"Live with no time out."
Mindfulness
"In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend."
Emotion
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