Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAUHere I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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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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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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