Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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