The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
JEAN COCTEAUThe dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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