Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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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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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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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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