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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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