If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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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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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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