Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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