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Letter "J" » Jean Cocteau Quotes
«I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.»
«What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
criticizes, cultivate
«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.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
characteristics, surprises
«The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, Joy of, orders
«Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.»
«There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.»
«The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.»
«A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
nursery, poetical, scent
«Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
gordian, Gordian knot, knot, patiently, spends, untie, untied, untying
«The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living»
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