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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
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
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
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 public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Imitation Ourselves Public
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
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
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
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted

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