Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
JEAN COCTEAUAfter 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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