When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
JEAN COCTEAUSince these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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