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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

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
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
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
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
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Death Expression Life Love Oneself Training
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
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
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly

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