It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAUThe job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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