The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
JEAN COCTEAUA true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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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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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.
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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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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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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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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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