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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

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
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Attitude Born Himself Mindset Wealth
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
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
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
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
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
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
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try

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