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One Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one…
- One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.
- 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
- One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
- The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your…
- Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a…
- Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective…
- 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…
- one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
- We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
- One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.
- A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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