Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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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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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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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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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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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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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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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