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The only way to kill death is through photography.

Jean Cocteau

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 poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Death Journal Receive Writing
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
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
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
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
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
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly

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