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.
JEAN COCTEAUI only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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