It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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 ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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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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