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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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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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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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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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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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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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