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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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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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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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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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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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