It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
JEAN COCTEAUThe joy of the young is to disobey.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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