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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
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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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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
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