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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

Jean Cocteau

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Death Mirror See Yourself
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

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