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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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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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The cinema is death at work.
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Art is science made flesh.
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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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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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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