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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

Jean Cocteau

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
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
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
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
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
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
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
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
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
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

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

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