I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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