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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

Jean Cocteau

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
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
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
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Creativity Inspirational Motivational World Yourself
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
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
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
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity

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