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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.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples one speaks of thieves.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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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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