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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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