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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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