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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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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
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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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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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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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