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Jean Cocteau

"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."

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"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."

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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

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"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so."

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"Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."

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