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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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 is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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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 the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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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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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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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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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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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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