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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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