Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
JEAN COCTEAUPicasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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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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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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