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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.
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