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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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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The joy of the young is to disobey
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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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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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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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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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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My only politics have been friendship.
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The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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