Quote #70
Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
More from Jean Cocteau
- Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
- See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
- Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
- Do not close the circle. Leave it open. Descartes closes the circle. Pascal leaves it open. Rousseau's triumph over the encyclopedists is t…
- He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.
- Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex.
- Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
- Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.