Quote #74
Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
More from Jean Cocteau
- Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex.
- Hate only hatred.
- Do not close the circle. Leave it open. Descartes closes the circle. Pascal leaves it open. Rousseau's triumph over the encyclopedists is t…
- Disavow anyone who provokes or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong.
- See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
- Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
- Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
- Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical.