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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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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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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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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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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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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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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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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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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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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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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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