Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
JEAN COCTEAUThe ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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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 true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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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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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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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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