The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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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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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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