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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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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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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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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
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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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The cinema is death at work.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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