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

Jean Cocteau

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Jean Cocteau


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I am a lie that always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau


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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Jean Cocteau

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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

Jean Cocteau


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It is in this way that a war is disastrous. If it does not kill, it transmits to some an energy alien to their own resources; to others it permits what the law forbids and accustoms them to short cuts. It artificially glorifies ingenuity, pity, daring. A whole younger generation believes itself to be sublime and collapses when it has to draw on itself for patriotism and fate.

Jean Cocteau


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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

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There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

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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Vivre est une chute horizontale

Jean Cocteau


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