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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.

Jean Cocteau

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
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
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
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
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
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
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
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
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
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
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
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.

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