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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

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
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
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
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Difficult Earth Live Serious
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual

I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

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