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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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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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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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