We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUAn original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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