An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
JEAN COCTEAUHere I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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