French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUBeauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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