Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
JEAN COCTEAUThe prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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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 love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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