Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
JEAN COCTEAUFight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
JEAN COCTEAUTact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
JEAN COCTEAUWhat the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAUAn original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
JEAN COCTEAUEverything 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.
JEAN COCTEAUThe eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is science in the flesh.
JEAN COCTEAULying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
JEAN COCTEAUI feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
JEAN COCTEAUThe prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAUThe ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
JEAN COCTEAUAfter the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
JEAN COCTEAUIf it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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