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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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 actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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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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The cinema is death at work.
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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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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
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