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Where there is a stink of shit
there is a smell of being.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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All true language
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Like the chatter
of a beggar's teeth.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the theater is not possible.
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
September 4, 1896
Died:
March 4, 1948
(aged 51)
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