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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
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