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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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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 Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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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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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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