After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
JEAN COCTEAUStyle is a simple way of saying complicated things.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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