I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is science in the flesh.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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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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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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