True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean CocteauTags: cocteau
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean CocteauI am a lie that always speaks the truth.
Jean CocteauThe poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean CocteauTags: poetry
I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
Jean CocteauIt 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 CocteauYouth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
Jean CocteauThere's no such thing as love; only proof of love.
Jean CocteauThe day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean CocteauTags: death
Vivre est une chute horizontale
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