"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?"
― Jean Cocteau
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Success
― Jean Cocteau
More From Jean Cocteau
- "Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for."
- "Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."
- "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
More In Success
- "Success and failure are equally disastrous."― Tennessee Williams
- "We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us."― Jerry Garcia
- "I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves."― Major Taylor