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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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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.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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