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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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 actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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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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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.
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Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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