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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 world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
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