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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.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
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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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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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