If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAUI love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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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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