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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

~Jean Cocteau

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: July 5th, 1889

Died: October 11th, 1963

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