One must not mistake majority for truth.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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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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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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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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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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I 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.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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