What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUDo as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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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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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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