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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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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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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
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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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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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