Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
JEAN COCTEAUSilence moves faster when it’s going backward.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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