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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders I follow.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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