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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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The cinema is death at work.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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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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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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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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