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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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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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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 poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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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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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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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 poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
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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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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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