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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Jean Cocteau

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Imitation Ourselves Public
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Inspirational Motivational Public Yourself
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
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 know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Forever God Infinity Mystery Ourselves
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
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul

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