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Love Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
- I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
- It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
- If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
- The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
- Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train…
- There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
- Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
- It is not inspiration; it is expiration.
- When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
- Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
- 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…
- There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
- Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation
- And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret…
- Without resistance you can do nothing
- My only politics have been friendship.
- I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.
- The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
- Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
- Living is a horizontal fall.
- I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
- It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
- Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
- I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide