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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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 worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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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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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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