When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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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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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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