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

Jean Cocteau

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
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
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Animal Dog Hope Performance Poetry Religion Service Training
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
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
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
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
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
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
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
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

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

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