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Quotations by author » Jean Cocteau
French Poet, Novelist, Actor, Film Director and Painter, 1889-1963
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
HonestyLiesTruth
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Luck
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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.
Best friendFriendshipGod
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
AnimalsCatsLovePetsSoul
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
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If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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If it has to choose who will be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
Actors and acting
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Life is a horizontal fall.
Life
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
AlcoholDrugsLiesMyths
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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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.
Dreams
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