The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
JEAN COCTEAUI love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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