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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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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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Art is science made flesh.
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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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