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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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