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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.

Jean Cocteau

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
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
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
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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Death Mirror See Yourself
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
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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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
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 public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Imitation Ourselves Public

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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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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