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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.

Jean Cocteau

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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Achievement Elegant Hope Life Live Poetry
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
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
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True

There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.

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