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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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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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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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