The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAUI have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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