We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
JEAN COCTEAUNothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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 extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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