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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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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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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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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
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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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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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