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Them Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
- 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…
- There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
- Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
- My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in…
- 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…
- The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,…
- Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
- Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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