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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Jean Cocteau

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
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
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
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
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
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Death Greatness Media Myself News Pieces Sad Yourself
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
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
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
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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality

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