There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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When 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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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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