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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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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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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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