The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAUSince the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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