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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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 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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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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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one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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