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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Jean Cocteau

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible
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
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
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
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
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True
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
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison 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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
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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Difficult Earth Live Serious

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