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

Jean Cocteau

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
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
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
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand
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
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
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
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
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

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