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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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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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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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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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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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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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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 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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