Quotes by Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Car

Massage

Travel

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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.

Believe

Children

Dream

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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Art

Film

Gambling

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A little too much is just enough for me.

Enough

Littles

Too Much

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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.

Angel

Eye

Taken

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A picture is not a window…an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

Abstract

Reality

Window

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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

Lasts

Propriety

Responsibility

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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

Painter

Photographer

Poet

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Nurse

Poetry

Rose

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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Death

Long

Reading

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