The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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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 a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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