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Jean Cocteau

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.
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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Addiction Body Oneself
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
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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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Deep Mirror One Liner Reflection Thinking
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try
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.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word

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