The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
JEAN COCTEAUAfter the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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