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

Jean Cocteau

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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
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Inspirational Motivational Public Yourself
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
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 have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
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
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
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
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment

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

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