60 Quotations by Jean Cocteau
- 21. If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomf ...
- 22. If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
- 23. In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
- 24. It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
- 25. Life is a horizontal fall.
- 26. Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or li ...
- 27. Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That i ...
- 28. Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only t ...
- 29. One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
- 30. One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree ...
- 31. One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.
- 32. Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- 33. Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
- 34. Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
- 35. Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light ...
- 36. Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
- 37. Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
- 38. Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth an ...
- 39. That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.
- 40. The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is alwa ...
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