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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

~Jean Cocteau

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: July 5th, 1889

Died: October 11th, 1963

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