The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
JEAN COCTEAUWe shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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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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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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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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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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