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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.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Art is science made flesh.
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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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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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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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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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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 beautiful with time.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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The cinema is death at work.
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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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one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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