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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Jean Cocteau

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Beginning Born Death Deep Life Myself Perspective Rush Walk
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
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
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Character Dreams Friendship Habit Live Regret Stranger Surprise
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
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
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
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

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