The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
JEAN COCTEAUThe ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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