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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

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
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
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
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
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
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
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
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
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home

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