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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.

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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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Art is science made flesh.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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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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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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