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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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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.
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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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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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