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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.

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
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Animal Count Horse Speed Wasted
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
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
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
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
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
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
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
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

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