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

Jean Cocteau

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
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
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
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
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
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
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
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
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

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