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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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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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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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