French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
JEAN COCTEAUStyle is a simple way of saying complicated things.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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