Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
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.
Jean Cocteau
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