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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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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"I teach that all men are mad."

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"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."
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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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