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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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Art is science made flesh.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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