The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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