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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
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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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