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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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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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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor nobody is content to be a spectator.
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