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Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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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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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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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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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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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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The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
Jean Cocteau
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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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