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Jean Cocteau

"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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"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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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."

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"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."
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