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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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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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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Art is science made flesh.
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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 public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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