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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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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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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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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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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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The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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