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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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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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The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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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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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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