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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.

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
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Death Greatness Media Myself News Pieces Sad Yourself
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
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
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
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
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

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