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> [The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/the-actual-tragedies-of-life-bear-no-relation-to-one-s-preconceived/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

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## Other authors on Tragedies Life

## More by Jean Cocteau

> [What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/what-is-history-after-all-history-is-facts-which-become-lies-in-the/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/i-am-happy-to-exhibit-but-not-to-put-myself-on-exhibition/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/love-is-mainly-an-affair-of-short-spasms-if-these-spasms-disappoint/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/i-believe-in-luck-how-else-can-you-explain-the-success-of-those-you/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/i-have-a-piece-of-great-and-sad-news-to-tell-you-i-am-dead/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/fight-any-instinct-to-be-humorless-for-humorlessness-is-the-worst-of/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/lying-is-the-only-art-form-that-the-public-sanctions-and/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/the-dead-drug-leaves-a-ghost-behind-at-certain-hours-it-haunts-the/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [“Vivre est une chute horizontale”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/vivre-est-une-chute-horizontale/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/i-expect-a-black-silence-that-is-almost-as-violent-as-laughter/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/my-method-is-simple-not-to-bother-about-poetry-it-must-come-of-its/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/if-a-poet-has-a-dream-it-is-not-of-becoming-famous-but-of-being/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/lack-of-manners-is-the-sign-of-a-hero/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/what-the-public-criticizes-in-you-cultivate-it-is-you/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

> [Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/here-i-am-trying-to-live-or-rather-i-am-trying-to-teach-the-death/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

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