We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
JEAN COCTEAUSince these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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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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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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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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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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