Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
JEAN COCTEAULove is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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