The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
JEAN COCTEAUIf it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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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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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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