Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
JEAN COCTEAUBeauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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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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