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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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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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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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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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