Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
JEAN COCTEAUThe joy of the young is to disobey.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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