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Jean Cocteau

After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
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
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
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
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
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
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
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Attitude Born Himself Mindset Wealth

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