Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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