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“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”

Jean Cocteau · Poetry

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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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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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Jean Cocteau

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

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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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