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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. - Jean Cocteau
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. - Jean Cocteau
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. - Jean Cocteau
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There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. - Jean Cocteau
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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. - Jean Cocteau
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. - Jean Cocteau
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. - Jean Cocteau
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I am a lie who always speaks the truth. - Jean Cocteau
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. - Jean Cocteau
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens. - Jean Cocteau
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. - Jean Cocteau
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. - Jean Cocteau
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. - Jean Cocteau
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau
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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. - Jean Cocteau
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The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. - Jean Cocteau
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. - Jean Cocteau
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. - Jean Cocteau
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Life is a horizontal fall. - Jean Cocteau
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. - Jean Cocteau
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. - Jean Cocteau
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. - Jean Cocteau
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought. - Jean Cocteau
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. - Jean Cocteau
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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? - Jean Cocteau
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