The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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