You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is science in the flesh.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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