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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Jean Cocteau

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
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
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
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
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
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
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
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
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Disappoint Experience Friendship Love Short

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

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