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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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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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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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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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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
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