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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Jean Cocteau

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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
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
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
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
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Animal Dog Hope Performance Poetry Religion Service Training
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
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie

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