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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Clément Eugène Jean Pierre Cocteau
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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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Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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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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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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