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I'm not willing just to be tol...

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

It is excruciating to be an un...

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

It is difficult to live withou...

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

All spiritual journeys are mar...

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Victor Hugo was a madman who t...

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

What uniform can I wear to hid...

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

It is not inspiration; it is e...

It is not inspiration; it is expiration.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The smell of opium is the leas...

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

A man's truest self realizatio...

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The job of the poet (a job whi...

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

One must not mistake majority ...

One must not mistake majority for truth.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The dead drug leaves a ghost b...

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The public only takes up yeste...

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Every day in the mirror I watc...

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Mirrors should think longer be...

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

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

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