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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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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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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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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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