I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
JEAN COCTEAUEverything 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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