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.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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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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