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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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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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The cinema is death at work.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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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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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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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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