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Jean Cocteau

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Beginning Born Death Deep Life Myself Perspective Rush Walk
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
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
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex

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