What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUWe shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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