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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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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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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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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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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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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Art is science made flesh.
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