Jean Cocteau on complication
Jean Cocteau94 quotes“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau 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 CocteauJean Cocteau It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau 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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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
James WatsonJames Watson I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
Linus PaulingLinus Pauling You’re only complicated to a man who simply wants to fuck you.
Lauren EdenLauren Eden Don’t want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.
Gaur Gopal DasGaur Gopal Das Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.
Charles R. SwindollCharles R. Swindoll So hold onto what calms your soul, for everything is temporary, hang by the moments that feel alive uncomplicate and just BE.
Kriti SanonKriti Sanon Simplify your life. You deserve peace. We make life complicated. On its own, life is simple.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor
