Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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