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Jean Cocteau
France
5 Jul 1889 // 1963
Poet, / Novelist / Dramatist
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On Work:
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work
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On Criticism:
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you
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On Wealth:
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly
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On Reality:
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing
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On Truth:
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them
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On Soul:
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul
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On Poet:
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood
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On Artist:
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up
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On Poet:
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed
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On Poet:
The poet doesn't invent. He listens
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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