May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should think longer before they reflect.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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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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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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