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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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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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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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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 hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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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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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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The cinema is death at work.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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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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