Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
JEAN COCTEAUCultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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