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Letter "J" » Jean Cocteau Quotes
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«After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Reading,
Writers
| Keywords:
journal, journals, Journal of, letter, receiving, The Journal
«I am a lie who always speaks the truth.»
«Life is a horizontal fall.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
horizontal
«True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Realism
| Keywords:
covered, prevents, realism, revealing, surprising
«Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
unconscious
«It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
addict, addicted, addicts
«Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
infinity, known as, mysteries
«Art is not a pastime but a priesthood»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
pastime, pastimes, priesthood
«All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
motivated, resemblance, resembles, stirs
«In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
Paris, spectator
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