Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
JEAN COCTEAUThe poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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 extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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