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The actual tragedies of life b...

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Beauty makes one lose one's he...

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

If a poet has a dream, it is n...

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

one should always talk well ab...

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

When a work appears to be ahea...

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I have seafoam in my veins, I ...

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

To be audacious with tact, you...

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Never do what a specialist can...

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Catastrophe, riots, factories ...

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I am burning myself up and wil...

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

A child's reaction to this typ...

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

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At all costs the true world of...

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Love is mainly an affair of sh...

Love 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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I succeeded in bewitching a fa...

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

There's no such thing as love;...

There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The prettiest dresses are worn...

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Listen carefully to first crit...

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

We are in a period of such ind...

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

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Look out! Be on your guard, be...

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

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Beauty cannot be recognized wi...

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

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