The joy of the young is to disobey.
JEAN COCTEAUMirrors should think longer before they reflect.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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