The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAUAfter the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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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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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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