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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Jean Cocteau

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Achievement Elegant Hope Life Live Poetry
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
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
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
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
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

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