Living is a horizontal fall.
JEAN COCTEAUNot only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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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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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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