French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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