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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
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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 seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The cinema is death at work.
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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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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
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