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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?

Jean Cocteau

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
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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Forever God Infinity Mystery Ourselves
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
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
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom

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