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Letter "J" » Jean Cocteau Quotes
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«Silence moves faster when it's going backward.»
«The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today»
«If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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ecstasy, height, hermit, hermits, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing
«The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.»
«The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.»
«The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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identify, morgue, morgues, The Louvre
«One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.»
«I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say»
«When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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Art
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in advance, lag, lagged, lagging, lags, work of art
«The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.»
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