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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 actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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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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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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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 poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The cinema is death at work.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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