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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Jean Cocteau

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
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
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
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
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
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
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex

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