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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
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
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Death Greatness Media Myself News Pieces Sad Yourself
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection 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
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself

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