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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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 greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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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.
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Art is science made flesh.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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