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The only way to kill death is through photography.

Jean Cocteau

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
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
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Achievement Elegant Hope Life Live Poetry
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
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
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
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality

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