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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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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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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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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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