"You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation."
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"They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey."
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"Some of the difficulty with quantum mechanics has to reside in the problem of coming to terms with the simple fact that there is no such thing as information in and of itself independent of the apparatus necessary to its perception. There were no starry skies prior to the first sentient and ocular being to behold them. Before that all was blackness and silence. And yet it moved."
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“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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Jean Cocteau (French poet and artist)
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Born : July 5, 1889
Died : October 11, 1963
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French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter.
Cocteau was the product of the years immediately preceding World War I, years of refined artistic taste that were devoid of political turmoil.
Soon after the war, Max Jacob introduced Cocteau to the future poet and novelist Raymond Radiguet. The 16-year-old Radiguet, who appeared to be a prodigy, advocated an aesthetic of simplicity and of classical clarity, qualities that would become characteristic of Cocteau’s own work. The example of Radiguet counted tremendously for Cocteau; and when Radiguet died in 1923, at age 21, the older man felt bereft of a friendship that had been based upon a constant interchange of ideas, encouragement, and enthusiasms.
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Born : July 5, 1889
Died : October 11, 1963
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French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter.
Cocteau was the product of the years immediately preceding World War I, years of refined artistic taste that were devoid of political turmoil.
Soon after the war, Max Jacob introduced Cocteau to the future poet and novelist Raymond Radiguet. The 16-year-old Radiguet, who appeared to be a prodigy, advocated an aesthetic of simplicity and of classical clarity, qualities that would become characteristic of Cocteau’s own work. The example of Radiguet counted tremendously for Cocteau; and when Radiguet died in 1923, at age 21, the older man felt bereft of a friendship that had been based upon a constant interchange of ideas, encouragement, and enthusiasms.
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"It's possible that what we call progress could prove to be the development of an error."
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"It is quite clear that we're living according to conventional norms like the calendar or the watch and it's likely that we have misled ourselves and perhaps you are still misleading youtselves."
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"It's posssible you find me stupid. But in the end I wish to be honest."
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"We are living in a time obsessed with actuality. People like immediacy, haste and actuality and poetry is, I repeat, timeless. This means that it doesn't correspond to what's happening. It is out-of-the-moment."
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"Of course, I wish people could keep of me the image of the mysterious other that inhabits me. I don't want to be remembered as the self speaking to you, but as the self who is in the shadows."
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"If a poet has a dream, It is not of becoming famous, but of being believed."
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“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
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“An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
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“I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.”
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“When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I am sure that I am still happy.”
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