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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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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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My only politics have been friendship.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
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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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The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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