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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Jean Cocteau

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
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
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
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
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try
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
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
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
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
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

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

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