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

Jean Cocteau

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
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
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
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
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
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
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
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
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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
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

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

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