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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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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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