Living is a horizontal fall.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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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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