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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.

Jean Cocteau

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
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
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
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
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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
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

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