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Living is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art Artist Discussion Plant Talk Voice
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
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Imitation Ourselves Public
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Disappoint Experience Friendship Love Short
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
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Attitude Born Himself Mindset Wealth
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Deep Difference History Illusion Myth Mythology Perspective Reality Truth
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
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
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
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

Living is a horizontal fall.

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