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

Jean Cocteau

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.
JEAN COCTEAU

Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Forever God Infinity Mystery Ourselves
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
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.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
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
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
JEAN COCTEAU

Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
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
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself

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