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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

Jean Cocteau

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 prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
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 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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
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
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
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 poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
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
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
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

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

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