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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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The cinema is death at work.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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My only politics have been friendship.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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