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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

~Jean Cocteau

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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

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There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

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Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

~Jean Cocteau

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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: July 5th, 1889

Died: October 11th, 1963

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