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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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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.
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