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.
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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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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