The joy of the young is to disobey.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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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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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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