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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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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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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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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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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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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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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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