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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Jean Cocteau

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
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
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
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
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Imitation Ourselves Public
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
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand

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