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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Jean Cocteau

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Achievement Elegant Hope Life Live Poetry
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
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
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
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Forever God Infinity Mystery Ourselves
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
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
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
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
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

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

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