All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
JEAN COCTEAUWe are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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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