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If it has to choose who is to...

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The reward of art is not fame...

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

There is always a period when...

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

All good music resembles some...

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The Louvre is a morgue; you g...

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The worst tragedy for a poet ...

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Style is a simple way of sayi...

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

One of the characteristics of...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I love cats because I enjoy m...

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Life is a horizontal fall. ...

Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

A film is a petrified fountai...

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Children and lunatics cut the...

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The poet is a liar who always...

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

True realism consists in reve...

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The instinct of nearly all so...

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Mystery has its own mysteries...

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

In Paris, everybody wants to ...

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I am a lie who always speaks ...

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I have lost my seven best fri...

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.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

You've never seen death? Look...

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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