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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

Jean Cocteau

May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
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
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
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
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
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
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Creativity Inspirational Motivational World Yourself
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
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

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