I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
JEAN COCTEAUThere’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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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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Art is science in the flesh.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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