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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

Jean Cocteau

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
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Inspirational Motivational Public Yourself
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
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
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
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
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
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
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
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
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul

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