Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.Jean Cocteau
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Life is a horizontal fall.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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