Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAULiving is a horizontal fall.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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