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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.

Jean Cocteau

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People
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
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
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
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
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 poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Beginning Born Death Deep Life Myself Perspective Rush Walk
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence

Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.

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