The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
JEAN COCTEAULiving is a horizontal fall.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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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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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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