The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
JEAN COCTEAUYou have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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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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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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