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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

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
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
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
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
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
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
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Achievement Elegant Hope Life Live Poetry
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Death Expression Life Love Oneself Training
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

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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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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