Imitate, and what is personal will eventually come despite yourself. - Jean Cocteau

" "

Imitate, and what is personal will eventually come despite yourself.

English
Collect this quote

About Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, painter, and filmmaker.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau • Zhan Kokto • Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau • Eugene Jean Maurice Cocteau
All quotes from Jean Cocteau Similar Quotes by other Originators

Share this quote as an image

Customize card

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Add semantic quote search to your AI assistant via MCP. One command setup.

Set Up MCP

Additional quotes by Jean Cocteau

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
2 sources found for this quote. Sign up to see where each one appeared
dreams
Find Similar

Try QuoteGPT

Chat naturally about what you need. Each answer links back to real quotes with citations.

It is in this way that a war is disastrous. If it does not kill, it transmits to some an energy alien to their own resources; to others it permits what the law forbids and accustoms them to short cuts. It artificially glorifies ingenuity, pity, daring. A whole younger generation believes itself to be sublime and collapses when it has to draw on itself for patriotism and fate.
The Difficulty of Being · March 21, 1995 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance
Find Similar