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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

Jean Cocteau

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
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
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
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
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
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Character Dreams Friendship Habit Live Regret Stranger Surprise
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
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
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself

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