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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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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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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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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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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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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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Art is science made flesh.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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