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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

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
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
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
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Character Dreams Friendship Habit Live Regret Stranger Surprise

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

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