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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
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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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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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