I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
JEAN COCTEAUWealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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