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Jean Cocteau

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
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
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
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Creativity Inspirational Motivational World Yourself
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
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
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Death Expression Life Love Oneself Training

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