The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
JEAN COCTEAUThe joy of the young is to disobey.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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