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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Death Mirror See Yourself
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
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
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
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
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
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

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