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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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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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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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The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
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Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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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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