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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Jean Cocteau

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
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
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’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Deep Difference History Illusion Myth Mythology Perspective Reality Truth
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
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
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
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
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
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
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

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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