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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Jean Cocteau

You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
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
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
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
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
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

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

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