After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is not a pastime but a priesthood.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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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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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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