Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
JEAN COCTEAULiving is a horizontal fall.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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