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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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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.

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.

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

I feel myself inhabited by a f...

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I've always preferred mytholog...

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Alas! I do not believe that in...

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The poet is at the disposal of...

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

History is a combination of re...

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Not only should you not accept...

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

When we awake it is the animal...

When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....