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Jean Cocteau Quotes

Jean Cocteau quotes

French Director, Writer, Poet July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963

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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. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death..."
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau
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. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little,..."
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden..."
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of..."
I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "There's no such thing as love; only proof of love."
There's no such thing as love; only proof of love. Jean Cocteau
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve..."
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. Jean Cocteau
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. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet..."
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "Life is a horizontal fall."
Life is a horizontal fall. Jean Cocteau
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Jean Cocteau
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes. Jean Cocteau
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. Jean Cocteau

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