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

Jean Cocteau

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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

Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
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
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
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
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Attitude Born Himself Mindset Wealth
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
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
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
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
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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
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
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
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
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

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

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