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Jean Cocteau
French
July 5, 1889
Director
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
Jean Cocteau
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Going
Silence
Moves
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
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Things
Way
Saying
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
Jean Cocteau
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Actor
Everybody
Nobody
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Jean Cocteau
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Up
Then
Again
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Jean Cocteau
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Time
Work
Only
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau
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Death
Me
Day
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau
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Like
How
Those
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Jean Cocteau
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Death
Me
How
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau
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Own
Known
Above
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau
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He
Any
Man
