Living is a horizontal fall.
JEAN COCTEAUI have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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