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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
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
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Disappoint Experience Friendship Love Short
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
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
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
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
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Death Greatness Media Myself News Pieces Sad Yourself
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

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