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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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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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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 preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
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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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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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