The only way to kill death is through photography.
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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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