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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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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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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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Every day in the mirror I watch 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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The cinema is death at work.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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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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