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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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