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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
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
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
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
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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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
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
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
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
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
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

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