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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Jean Cocteau

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Imitation Ourselves Public
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
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
You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Death Mirror See Yourself
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Difficult Earth Live Serious
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Deep Difference History Illusion Myth Mythology Perspective Reality Truth
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual

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