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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

Jean Cocteau

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
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Beginning Born Death Deep Life Myself Perspective Rush Walk
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
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
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
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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

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