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Jean Cocteau Inspirational Quotes (126)

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Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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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.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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