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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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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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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 worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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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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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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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 public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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