We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.Jean Cocteau
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
Jean Cocteau
The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Jean Cocteau
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
Jean Cocteau
Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Jean Cocteau
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