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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

Jean Cocteau

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
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word
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
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
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
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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Death Mirror See Yourself
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
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
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

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