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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.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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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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