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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.

Jean Cocteau

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
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
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
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
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
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 ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Animal Dog Hope Performance Poetry Religion Service Training
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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
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
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself

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