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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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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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The cinema is death at work.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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