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Art is science in the flesh.

Jean Cocteau

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
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
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
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
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
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
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
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
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Animal Dog Hope Performance Poetry Religion Service Training
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
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

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