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The cinema is death at work.
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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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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It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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