There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
JEAN COCTEAUWhen 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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