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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.

Jean Cocteau

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
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
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
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand
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
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
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
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
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
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
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

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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