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From Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
- True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
- I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a…
- 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,…
- Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
- Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of…
- In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this…
- When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because…
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