Le cinéma, c'est l'écriture moderne dont l'encre est la lumière.

Jean Cocteau

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« Un beau livre, c'est celui qui sème à foison les points d'interrogation. »

Jean Cocteau

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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

Jean Cocteau

Tags: sarcastic-humor

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Čudo, ako potraje, prestaje da bude čudo.Zato priviđenja tako brzo i nestaju.

Jean Cocteau

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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Jean Cocteau

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There is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.

Jean Cocteau

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plant

it

It will sprout

But forget about the rustic festivities

For the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal through
the compact generations

Jean Cocteau

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The obstinate miner
of the void
exploits
his fertile mine

Jean Cocteau

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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.

Jean Cocteau

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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Jean Cocteau

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