Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
JEAN COCTEAUNothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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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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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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