It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAU
JEAN COCTEAU
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau 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.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau 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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People who don’t know how to love you are always going to hurt your heart.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta I no longer seek the love I think I deserve but rather the love I’ve always deserved.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole There is no such thing as a good investment.
Manish KhuntetaManish Khunteta Without you, I’m lost.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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ScHoolboy QScHoolboy Q Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I know I write too many love poems, and perhaps this is me admitting that the love inside me is still there somewhere, stagnant – but its a cruel addiction. I need a intervention.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
Jon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-Zinn Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Such alchemy your mystic eyes like a drug I’m addicted to your fiery kisses.
Frank ZFrank Z A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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