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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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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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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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My only politics have been friendship.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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