I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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