I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAUI have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Everything 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.
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