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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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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 feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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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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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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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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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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