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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

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
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 is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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
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
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
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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
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
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

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