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Jean Cocteau

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison 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
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Beginning Born Death Deep Life Myself Perspective Rush Walk
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
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 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
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself 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
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time

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