What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUMystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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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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