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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.

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
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand
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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Death Expression Life Love Oneself Training
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
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
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
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
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason

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