Jean Cocteau Short Quotes

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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

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He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

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Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.

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Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical.

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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going too far.

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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.

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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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Mirrors are the doors through which Death comes and goes.

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Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

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Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go too far.

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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

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Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex.

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The extreme limit of wisdom — that's what the public calls madness.

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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

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Know that your work speaks only to those on the same wavelength as you.

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The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one's friends.

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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

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

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Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

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