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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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 runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
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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 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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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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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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
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