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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
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
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
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
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
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
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
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Animal Dog Hope Performance Poetry Religion Service Training
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
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
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft

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