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Nicolas de Chamfort

"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."

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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

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"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."

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"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

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"Art is anything people do with distinction."

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"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."

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"I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it."

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"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."
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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."
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"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever."
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"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."
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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."
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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."
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