Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAUEvery day in the mirror I watch death at work.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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