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The only tragic part of the making of was Jean Marais's terrible make-up which used to take five hours and from which he emerged as though after a surgical operation. Laurence Olivier said to me one day that he would never have had the strength to undergo such torture. I maintain that it took Marais's passion for his profession and his love for his dog to have persisted with such fortitude to pass from the human race into the animal one. ..
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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Jean Cocteau |
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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
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Jean Cocteau |
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The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one's friends.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Jean Cocteau |
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Jean Cocteau |
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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?
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Jean Cocteau |
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Poetry is indispensable -- if I only knew what for.
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Jean Cocteau |
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That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.
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Jean Cocteau |
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.
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Jean Cocteau |
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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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Jean Cocteau |
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Art is science made clear.
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Jean Cocteau |
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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Jean Cocteau |
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Jean Cocteau |
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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Jean Cocteau |
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Jean Cocteau |
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The extreme limit of wisdom -- that's what the public calls madness.
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Jean Cocteau |
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There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
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Jean Cocteau |
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Jean Cocteau |
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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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Jean Cocteau |
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Life is a horizontal fall.
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Jean Cocteau |
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.
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Jean Cocteau |
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One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Hasten slowly. Run faster than beauty.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Be helpful, even if it compromises you.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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Jean Cocteau |
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He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Hate only hatred.
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Jean Cocteau |
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Disavow anyone who provokes or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong.
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