Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
JEAN COCTEAUMystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAUI only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
JEAN COCTEAUWhat the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUAfter 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.
JEAN COCTEAUThere’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
JEAN COCTEAUIf it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAUCultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUContinue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
JEAN COCTEAUFrench people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUI feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
JEAN COCTEAUWhatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
JEAN COCTEAUNothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
JEAN COCTEAUYou have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
JEAN COCTEAUYou’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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