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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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