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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

Jean Cocteau

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAU

Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
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
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Forever God Infinity Mystery Ourselves
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
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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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth

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