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Jean Cocteau

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

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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

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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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"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."

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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

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"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

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