Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
JEAN COCTEAUThe only way to kill death is through photography.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Love 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.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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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.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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