It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

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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All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

Jean Cocteau

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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

Jean Cocteau

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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart?
It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

Jean Cocteau


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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Jean Cocteau

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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.

Jean Cocteau


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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Jean Cocteau


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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Jean Cocteau

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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Jean Cocteau


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