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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Jean Cocteau

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Attitude Born Himself Mindset Wealth
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
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
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
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
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
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

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