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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

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
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
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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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
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
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
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
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
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
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter

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