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Jean Cocteau Quotes
«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.»
«There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
headlong, returns, shaves
«The trouble about the Academie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
electing, get around to
«Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
lays, off the record, surround, torpor, unveil, unveiled, unveils
«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 design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bewildered, preconceived, relation to, tragedies
«If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
Barabbas, crucified
«That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
pile, wrist, wrists
«The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
disapproves, The Ear, transfer