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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.

Jean Cocteau

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
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Difficult Earth Live Serious
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
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
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try

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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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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