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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Picasso 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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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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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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