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.
JEAN COCTEAUNever do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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