“Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.”
Jean Cocteau
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“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
Jean Cocteau
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“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Jean Cocteau
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“There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.”
Jean Cocteau
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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”
Jean Cocteau
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“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”
Jean Cocteau
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“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Jean Cocteau
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“If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.”
Jean Cocteau
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“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
Jean Cocteau
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“It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.”
Jean Cocteau
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“The extreme limit of wisdom –that’s what the public calls madness.”
Jean Cocteau
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“Tact is knowing how far to go too far.”
Jean Cocteau
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“Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.”
Jean Cocteau
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“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”
Jean Cocteau
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“Art is science made clear.”
Jean Cocteau
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“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”
Jean Cocteau
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“Poetry is indispensable –if I only knew what for.”
Jean Cocteau
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“When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.”
Jean Cocteau
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Originality
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“The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.”
Jean Cocteau
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“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
Jean Cocteau
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
