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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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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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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 poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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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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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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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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