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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Jean Cocteau

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
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
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
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
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom

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