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Watch yourself all your life ...

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The artist is a kind of priso...

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Youth is certain what it reje...

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Mirrors should think longer b...

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

A true photographer is as rar...

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Everything one does in life, ...

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

History is a combination of r...

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

Poetry, being elegance itself...

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

How our old friend [Michelang...

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Be a constant outrage to mode...

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

At all costs the true world o...

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

Every poem is a coat of arms....

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

All spiritual journeys are ma...

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Alas! I do not believe that i...

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

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

Without resistance you can do...

Without resistance you can do nothing

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

A child's reaction to this ty...

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

Childhood knows what it wants...

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

The artist must know how far ...

The artist must know how far to go too far.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

People seek escape in myth by...

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

I have never felt any connect...

I have never felt any connection with my family. There is?I must say simply?something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

Jean Cocteau 271 quotes

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