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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

Jean Cocteau

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
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
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
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
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
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
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
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
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk

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