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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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