Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
JEAN COCTEAUI feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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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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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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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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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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