Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
JEAN COCTEAUFight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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