Quotes by Jean Cocteau

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save...

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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time...

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Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those...

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us...

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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This...

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There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so...

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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

#Jean Cocteau