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• We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

  Jean Cocteau

  Thieves, Individualism, Speak

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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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

  Taken, Eye, Angel

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• Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

  Jean Cocteau

  Elegance, Cease

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• The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Misunderstood, Tragedy, Poetic

  Le Coq et l'Arlequin (1918) in Le Rappel ... l'ordre (Recall to Order, 1926) p. 20

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• I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

  Jean Cocteau

  Liberty, Willing, Wounds

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Venture, Youth, Conviction

  Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.40, Melville House

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• Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

  Jean Cocteau

  Love, Weather, Affair

  Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.57, Melville House

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• Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Animal, Pet, Outstanding

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• Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

  Jean Cocteau

  Funny, Humor, Mirrors

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• Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fall, Journey, Rooms

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

  Jean Cocteau

  Knowing, Drug, Saint

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

  Jean Cocteau

  Exhibitions, Publicity, Exhibits

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• Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

  Jean Cocteau

  Reading, Stupidity, Proust

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• It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

  Jean Cocteau

  Overcoming Addiction, Addiction, Body

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

  Jean Cocteau

  Bears, Helping, Importance

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Order, Literature, Masterpiece

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• The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Music, Feelings, Mysterious

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• I have never felt any connection with my family. There is—I must say simply—something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mother, Father, Connections

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• Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

  Jean Cocteau

  Stars, Axes, Blue

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• Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

  Jean Cocteau

  Hero, Manners

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

  Jean Cocteau

  Noble, Rewards, Return

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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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

  Art, Sentimental, Emotion

  Jean Cocteau (1926). “A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays”, Haskell House Pub Ltd

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• Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

  Jean Cocteau

  Modesty, Blind, Outrage

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

  Jean Cocteau

  Writing, Reality, Spirit

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