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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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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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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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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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