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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Jean Cocteau

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
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
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
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
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
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Disappoint Experience Friendship Love Short
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Creativity Inspirational Motivational World Yourself
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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