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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

~Jean Cocteau

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

~Jean Cocteau

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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

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Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

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There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

~Jean Cocteau

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: July 5th, 1889

Died: October 11th, 1963

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