No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.
Jean CocteauAn artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteauone should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
Jean CocteauCatastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to the about-turns of the mind.
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Les miroirs feraient bien de réfléchir un peu plus avant de renvoyer les images.
Jean CocteauA true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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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 CocteauAt all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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