Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
JEAN COCTEAUThe dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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