Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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