Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
JEAN COCTEAUOne must not mistake majority for truth.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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