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

Jean Cocteau

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
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
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
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
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 joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
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

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