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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 skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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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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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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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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The cinema is death at work.
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My only politics have been friendship.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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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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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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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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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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