The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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