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.
JEAN COCTEAUElegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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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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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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