The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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