Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAUWhen a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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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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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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