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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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