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“I am a lie that always speaks the truth.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Living is a horizontal fall.”
― Jean Cocteau, Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Art is science made clear.”
― Jean Cocteau

“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
― Jean Cocteau

“I am burning myself up and will always do so.”
― Jean Cocteau

“I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
― Jean Cocteau

“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.”
― Jean Cocteau