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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
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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