Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
JEAN COCTEAUA film is a petrified fountain of thought.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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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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Living is a horizontal fall.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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