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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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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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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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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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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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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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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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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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