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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
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Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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