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“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”

Jean Cocteau · Movies

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Jean Cocteau

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

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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.

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