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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

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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Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau
Eugene Jean Maurice Cocteau
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The cinema is death at work.
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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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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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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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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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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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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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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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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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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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