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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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 is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.
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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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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 ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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Art is science made flesh.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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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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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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