The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
JEAN COCTEAUI 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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You 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.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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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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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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