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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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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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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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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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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 artist must know how far to go too far.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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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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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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