I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
JEAN COCTEAUWhat the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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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.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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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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