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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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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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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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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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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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The Louvre is a morgue you go there to identify your friends.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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