I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
JEAN COCTEAUSuch 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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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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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