Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is science in the flesh.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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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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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.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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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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