It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
JEAN COCTEAUWe shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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