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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
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