The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Jean Cocteau
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  1. Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. - Oscar Wilde

  4. To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. - Maya Angelou

  5. Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why?- Isn't it gorgeous? - Dave Eggers

More Quotes By Jean Cocteau
  1. Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

  2. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  3. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

  4. A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability...

  5. The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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