Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
JEAN COCTEAUYou 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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