Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
JEAN COCTEAULove is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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 indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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