Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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