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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.
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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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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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My only politics have been friendship.
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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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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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