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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

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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Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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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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My only politics have been friendship.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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The artist must know how far to go too far.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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