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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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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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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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