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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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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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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 art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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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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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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