Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
JEAN COCTEAUTact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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