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Jean Cocteau

"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."

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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."

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Jean Cocteau
"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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Jean Cocteau
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
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Jean Cocteau
"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
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
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Jean Cocteau
"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."
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Jean Cocteau
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
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Jean Cocteau
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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Jean Cocteau
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
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Jean Cocteau
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
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Jean Cocteau
"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."

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Aberjhani

"But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could've immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she'd ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience."

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Aberjhani

"The birds in the sky can never great the king yet their beauty gives the king to stare at them endlessly, wishing to be with them in the sky."

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Aberjhani

"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."

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Aberjhani

"Let her know that her look really works for you."

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Aberjhani

"A woman, desires to hear nice words from a man who can praise her beauty."

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Aberjhani

"Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it."

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Aberjhani

"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."

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Aberjhani

"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."

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Aberjhani

"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."

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Aberjhani

"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."

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