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

Jean Cocteau

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
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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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
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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Disappoint Experience Friendship Love Short
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
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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Forever God Infinity Mystery Ourselves
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Beginning Born Death Deep Life Myself Perspective Rush Walk
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
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
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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