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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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My only politics have been friendship.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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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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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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