Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should think longer before they reflect.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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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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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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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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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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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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