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Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Jean Cocteau
Moving, Silence, Faster
Jean Cocteau (1972). “Three screenplays: L'Eternel retour, Orphée, La Belle et la bête”

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

Jean Cocteau
Laughter, Silence, Black
"Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet. The Testament of Orpheus".

Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

Jean Cocteau
Silence, Secret, Way
Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

Jean Cocteau
Photography, Silence, Cry

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