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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Jean Cocteau

One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
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
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
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
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
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
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
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

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