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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

Jean Cocteau

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
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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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
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
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Difficult Earth Live Serious
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Animal Dog Hope Performance Poetry Religion Service Training

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