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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Jean Cocteau

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAU

Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
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
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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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
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
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
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
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
JEAN COCTEAU

Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

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