All Jean Cocteau Quotes
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.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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