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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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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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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
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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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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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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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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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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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