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Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
French Director
Born: Jul 5, 1889
Died: Oct 11, 1963
Art Death Me Only Poet You
Related authors: Agnes Varda Alain Resnais Claire Denis Claude Chabrol Francois Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard Robert Bresson Sacha Guitry
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. Jean Cocteau
You Identify Go Friends Louvre Your
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. Jean Cocteau
Mysteries Own Ours Above Mystery Known Gods Infinity
The poet doesn't invent. He listens. Jean Cocteau
Invent Poet Poetry He Listens
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee. Jean Cocteau
Will Our Musical Pieces Forced Domain Nose Transfer Them Flee Certain Ear
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. Jean Cocteau
Me Joy Speak First Fall Down Backward Dared Would Write Weep He Limits Which Stairs Act Flight Jean Play Second Last Set Suit
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Jean Cocteau
Love Soul Too Indeed Those Characters Souls Wood Wooden To Love Who Many
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Jean Cocteau
Music Good Feelings Good Music Something Objects Something Good Mysterious Motivated Which Resemblance Resembles
I am a lie who always speaks the truth. Jean Cocteau
Truth Lie Always Am Speaks Who
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. Jean Cocteau
Hermit State Must Relinquish He Ecstasy Comfort Becomes His Lack Height Lives
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. Jean Cocteau
Regret Nothing Strangers Live Our Characteristics Dream Habits Surprises Off Friends Cut Us Agree
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau
Work Time Only Behind Appears
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Jean Cocteau
Say Having Only Won Truths After Which Them Right
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. Jean Cocteau
Work Art Value Only Resulting Emotion Obtained Sentimental
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau
Death Day Me Walk Birth Toward Without Began Walking
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