Poetry is a religion with no hope.
JEAN COCTEAUI have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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