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Quote by Jean Cocteau
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time t

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. – Jean Cocteau

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

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Art
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. – Clement Greenberg

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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art. – Bliss Carman

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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. – Eric Hoffer

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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

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I dont know why, its the same reason why you like some music and you dont like others. Theres something about it that you like. Ultimately I dont find its in my best interests to try and analyze it, since its fundamentally emotional. – Jerry Garcia

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Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. – Ralph Merkle

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If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny. – Steve Wozniak

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