Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
JEAN COCTEAUWealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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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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Art is science in the flesh.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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