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“Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.”

Jean Cocteau · Poetry

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Jean Cocteau

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 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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

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