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Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- 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.
- The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
- The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
- The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
- The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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