See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. - Jean Cocteau

Il y a une parte de vérité qui sort de nous que ce n'est pas le rêve, ce n'est pas la rêverie.
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C'est notre vrai moi, il est caché dans les ténèbres, il nous donne désordre....nous voulons travailler sans lui et est alors que nous commettons nos plus graves erreurs.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.