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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.

Jean Cocteau

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
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
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Death Greatness Media Myself News Pieces Sad Yourself
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beautiful Clothes Sex
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
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

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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