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"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."
Jean Cocteau
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French Director
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"Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically."
Jean Cocteau
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Poetry And Poets
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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."
Jean Cocteau
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French Director Jobs
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"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
Jean Cocteau
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French Director Instinct
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"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."
Jean Cocteau
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French Director
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"A good upbringing consists in hiding how much you think of yourself, and how little you think of others."
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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Art French Director
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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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Art French Director
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"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."
Jean Cocteau
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Best Friends French Director
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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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Animals French Director
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"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."
Jean Cocteau
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Death French Director
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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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French Director Love
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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."
Jean Cocteau
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Death French Director
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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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Alcohol And Alcoholism French Director
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"The trouble about the Academie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed."
Jean Cocteau
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