There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.

Jean Cocteau

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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
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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
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
You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Death Mirror See Yourself
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
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Inspirational Motivational Public Yourself
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
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
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
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
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 joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
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
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
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
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
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
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try

There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.

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