I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
JEAN COCTEAUThe eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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