"Living is a horizontal fall."

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Source : Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

Jean Cocteau

“I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.”
“No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.”
“In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.”
“Usually, when making a film, the surprises are negative surprises. You don't get what you wanted or what you hoped for. The only nice surprises are those that are offered to you by actors when they offer you these gifts, when they are better and give you more than what you had originally conceived. That doesn't happen every day on set, but if it happens a couple of times in the course of making a film, you can consider yourself very lucky.”
“The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.”
“I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.”
“I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.”
“My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.”

Source : Guy de la Valdene (2007). “For a Handful of Feathers”, p.85, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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