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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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Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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 ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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