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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?

Jean Cocteau

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Character Dreams Friendship Habit Live Regret Stranger Surprise
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
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
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
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
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
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Creativity Inspirational Motivational World Yourself

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